Grim state of libpthread (needs serious cleanup)

matthieu castet castet.matthieu at free.fr
Tue Mar 24 21:35:52 UTC 2009


Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am going to add this script to docs/* in hope to at least
> start some cleanup work. Libpthread (any of its three flavors
> we have) is poorly documented and looks too complex.
> 
I wonder I nobody is interested in android pthread under bsd license.
I is quite simple, use futex for fast thread switch and  can be easily 
ported to other libc/platform.

I did a basic porting it to uclibc i386 in a couple of hours [1].


Matthieu

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.uclibc.general/16834


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