[PATCH] Further eliminate POSIX-emulation under LinuxThreads

Leon Timmermans fawaka at gmail.com
Sun Feb 12 15:05:31 UTC 2012


On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> wrote:
> I have no idea whether it's really LinuxThreads based or something
> else, but please note that Debian GNU/kFreeBSD seems to be affected as
> t/op/getpid.t started failing there with 0e21945565eb4664d84 (around
> Perl 5.15.1). See [perl #96270].

That does make sense, NTPL has some firm demands on the kernel,
LinuxThreads on kFreeBSD would be much easier to pull off. That might
explain another threading related issue I got from CPAN Testers too
(not related to pids though).

Leon




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