Looking at the changelog, I don't see any NGPT.
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 15:37, Murthy Kambhampaty wrote:
> NGPT, which is in 2.4.19pre3, aims to provide IRIX threading for Linux,
> so
> it may not be true for much longer that "Irix threading that has no
> Linux
> counterpart". From the NGPT page
> (http://oss.software.ibm.com/pthreads/):
>
> "Goals
> The goal of this project is to attempt to solve the problems associated
> with
> the use of the pthreads library on Linux. It will add M:N threading
> capability and improve significantly on the POSIX compliance of pthreads
> on
> Linux. This will allow significant performance improvements for all
> applications that make use of the pthreads library, particularly on SMP
> machines. It will also enable Linux to provide threading services that
> are
> more in line with the capabilities of the commerical Unix operating
> system
> such as IBM AIX and SGI IRIX."
>
> Murthy
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eric Sandeen [mailto:sandeen@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 18:32
> > To: Jason Joines
> > Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: xfs_copy
> >
> >
> > It's not available for Linux - if I understand correctly, it uses Irix
> > threading that has no Linux counterpart.
> >
> > We just ship the man page so you can see what you're missing,
> > apparently. ;-)
> >
> > -Eric
> >
> > On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 17:26, Jason Joines wrote:
> > > Where do you get xfs_copy? I've installed several different
> > > versions of xfsdump, xfsprogs, etc., but none of them have had
> > > xfs_copy.
> > >
> > > Jason Joines
> > > -----------------------------------------------------
> > --
> > Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
> > sandeen@xxxxxxx SGI, Inc.
> >
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