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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.5.68 FUTEX support should be optional
On Thu, 15 May 2003, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> Ingo Oeser wrote:
>
> > Is this also the case, if I don't want threading at all on my
> > system? Does glibc still have a seperate static library for this,
>
> This has nothing to do with static linking or not.
>
> glibc, when compiled with nptl, will always include uses of futexes.
> But since there is no contention and the fast path is entirely handled
> at userlevel, the actual kernel functionality is not required.

He didn't say static linking he said static library. I assume he meant a
.a lib instead of a .so lib. One which has elements which are made part of
the executable instead of being part of a shared library.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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