Re: [RFC] Enable thread termination

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:14:57 +0100,
Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> Neal H. Walfield, le Mon 18 Nov 2013 13:41:46 +0100, a écrit :
> > At Mon, 18 Nov 2013 12:31:42 +0100,
> > Richard Braun wrote:
> > > The threading library is a
> > > low level component and should act as closely as its users expect it to.
> > 
> > I don't agree.  On Linux, creating a thread is a pretty much a single
> > system call.
> 
> Err, not really. There are a *lot* of things that libpthread fixes up,
> be it TLS, robust mutex lists, reseting cancellability state, tracing,
> etc.

Ok, fair enough.  My assumptions/recollections about how NPTL work are
probably incorrect.  I haven't looked at that code in a long time.

Neal