Re: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than on native Linux"

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2000 - 14:01:48 EST


In article <200008231822.e7NIMrN167635@saturn.cs.uml.edu>,
Albert D. Cahalan <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> wrote:
>
>Ulrich Drepper has repeatedly flamed Linus for not adding the
>features needed for low-overhead POSIX threads. Linus thinks
>the POSIX thread interface is broken, so he won't add the ugly
>bits needed to sanely reach POSIX compliance.

Wrong. I'd be happy to add the bits, it's just that nobody has sent me a
sane patch. People complain a lot, but I haven't seen anything constructive.

                Linus
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