What does "nptl" stand for?

Juan Lupion jll66 at tid.es
Wed Jan 21 14:39:29 UTC 2004


jasoncc at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> What does the .nptl extension on the kernel name stand for?
> 
> 2.4.22-1.2153.nptl
> 
> While we're at it, what does the whole "-1.2153.nptl" mean?

Mmmmmm... native posix threads library, maybe?





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