wine loader anamoly

[bala saravanan]

Hello,

I am using wine-20040309 on my rehat 9 machine. 

When I use wine in the default redhat 9 kernel
2.4.20-8,
i see that the wineserver and wine-pthread binaries
are running. Whereas when i use the vannila kernel
2.4.20,
wineserver and wine-kthread binaries are running.

Can anyone explain the reason behind this behavious of
wine.

You help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Balas

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[Mike McCormack]

bala saravanan wrote:
> When I use wine in the default redhat 9 kernel
> 2.4.20-8,
> i see that the wineserver and wine-pthread binaries
> are running. Whereas when i use the vannila kernel
> 2.4.20,
> wineserver and wine-kthread binaries are running.

Redhat's kernel support the Native Posix Threads Library (NPTL), and the 
vanilla kernel does not.  Wine uses wine-pthreads if NPTL is available, 
and wine-kthreads if not.

Mike

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"bala saravanan" <bala_forums(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am using wine-20040309 on my rehat 9 machine.
>
> When I use wine in the default redhat 9 kernel
> 2.4.20-8,
> i see that the wineserver and wine-pthread binaries
> are running. Whereas when i use the vannila kernel
> 2.4.20,
> wineserver and wine-kthread binaries are running.
>
> Can anyone explain the reason behind this behavious of
> wine.

You have to run either latest snapshot or (preferably) Wine
compiled from CVS in order to get any help.

-- 
Dmitry.

[Troy Rollo]

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:03, bala saravanan wrote:
> When I use wine in the default redhat 9 kernel
> 2.4.20-8,
> i see that the wineserver and wine-pthread binaries
> are running. Whereas when i use the vannila kernel
> 2.4.20,
> wineserver and wine-kthread binaries are running.

It's Posix threads versus the older Linux threading. Redhat backported Posix 
threads to their 2.4 kernels, which is why wine-pthread is used for the 
Redhat kernel. 2.6 kernels also use wine-pthread. Non-redhat 2.4 and earlier 
kernels will use wine-kthread.