For most application developers, changes between the 2.4 and 2.6 kernel families have little direct impact. However, kernel and system changes affecting how applications spawn and manage other processes and threads are a significant exception. This whitepaper by TimeSys Distinguished Engineer Peter Dibble and Product Manager William von Hagen discusses topics related to migrating existing applications to… the 2.6 kernel and the Native POSIX Threading Library (NPTL).

This article is part five of a series of whitepapers from TimeSys on Migrating to Linux kernel 2.6. The series includes:

• Customizing a 2.6-based Linux kernel
• Migrating device drivers to Linux kernel 2.6
• Using the 2.6 kernel with your current system
• Migrating custom Linux installations to 2.6
• Migrating applications to the 2.6 kernel and NPTL

 
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