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Re: Remove support for old Solaris threads
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: Remove support for old Solaris threads |
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Tue, 09 Jul 2019 01:24:56 +0200 |
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Hi Tom,
> the gnulib POSIX thread support has been unbuildable on Solaris < 7.
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> Just to see what state it's in on Solaris 2.6 I changed the witness back
> to pthread_cancel ...
We just this week changed the documentation to state that Solaris < 9
is unsupported. [1]
Support by Oracle for Solaris 2.6 ended in 2006. That is, 13 years ago. [2]
For this reason, I don't think anyone is still using such a system for
productive purposes.
The purpose of Gnulib is to allow software developers on various operating
systems to work together as a single community, rather than as distinct
communities that don't benefit each other. For this purpose, it is not
necessary to support operating systems which have a zero-sized developer
community.
Bruno
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2019-07/msg00030.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system)#Version_history