On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 15:01:58 -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
For the record, I checked, and Red Hat 9's lsb-1.3 package simply made ld-lsb.so.1 a symlink to ld-linux.so.2,
I'm pretty sure all distros do that. I've never heard of any LSB compliant distro using a custom linker to override upstream choices, even though it's theoretically possible. I suspect most distro developers just don't care - if they cared about stability they would not have shipped NPTL as the default at all, for any app. On a desktop system at any rate there's little to no benefit for existing software. The performance improvements are only really an issue for servers.
so that version of their lsb environment does seem to use NPTL. Probably they figured they'd do something fancier if they got any complaints, and since nobody was shipping LSB-1.3 apps, they never had to.
There's that catch-22 again. No LSB apps == LSB has no influence.
It'll be interesting to see if LSB-2.0 apps actually get deployed... having an argument about hypothetical pros and cons is a bit sterile.
Well, they aren't really hypothetical. The cons of todays LSB is I believe why there aren't any LSB apps out there today. I hope it goes somewhere but I'm not holding my breath, not any more.