new Red Hat coming

[Kurt Granroth]

On Tuesday 25 March 2003 07:34 pm, David Mandala wrote:
> It looks like Red Hat 9 is going to break a lot of things. See:
> http://news.com.com/2100-1016-994074.html
>
> They included the new threading system, called the Native Posix
> Threading Library, But the change to NPTL means some older software
> won't work, including 3D graphics support for Nvidia and ATI graphics
> cards and some versions of Sun Microsystems' software for running Java
> programs, according to Red Hat.

Huh.. I wonder if this NPTL will finally support Posix semaphores between 
processes.  That's one area where Linux is (currently) sorely lacking.  
Right now, if you want cross-process semaphores, you need to use System V 
IPC which is seriously scary for any non-trivial uses.