From da0eaa474ca266debfef5d8a46759c2ac7822ea5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roland McGrath Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 04:43:32 +0000 Subject: * NEWS: Note LinuxThreads removal. --- ChangeLog | 1 + NEWS | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index f51760a..97a618e 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ 2005-07-02 Roland McGrath + * NEWS: Note LinuxThreads removal. * manual/install.texi (Installation): Don't mention linuxthreads. (Configuring and compiling): Don't use linuxthreads as example. diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3ece355..10c68ca 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ Version 2.4 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. + +* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no + longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels. + For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we + recommend using the stable 2.3 branch. Version 2.3.5 -- cgit v1.1