libkse -> libpthreads

[Julian Elischer]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> > 
> > WE have a small problem.. when we started we had only on  pthreads
> > package and libKSE was teh heir..
> 
> No, libkse WAS libpthread.  We renamed the library
> temporarily until it was proven to work reasonably
> well (I did the commit that renamed it).
> 
> > now we have to live with libthr in the picture.
> > it is possible that we should think of a naming scheme that
> > allows all 3 libraries to have meaningful related names
> > 
> > libc_r -> libpthreadM1
> > libthr -> libpthreadMM
> > libkse -> libpthreadMN
> > 
> > or something.
> 
> The current naming scheme is fine.  Libc_r is already
> a well known name along with its shortcomings.  Solaris
> uses libthread for 1:1 as far as I can tell which would
> seem to match libthr, and libpthread is the POSIX threads
> library whose goal is to support POSIX as fully as
> possible (scope process and scope system).
> 
> I would object to libpthread{M1,MM,MN}.  We already
> had a name for libpthread.  Libthr can live fine as
> libthr or libthread.
> 
> -- 
> Dan Eischen
> 
> 

fair enough