> It would be desirable to add NPTL versions of the DSOs. The NPTL > cross-process mutexes are more scalable than Berkeley DB's approach. > (Traditional POSIX mutexes, before NPTL, are single-process, that's why > they are needed.)
When the Debian glibc packages drop LinuxThreads support entirely, db4.3 can be NPTL-only. I don't know whether someone will do the work to ship a separate set of DSOs prior to that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]