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Date:      Wed, 3 Mar 2004 09:08:22 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
Cc:        davidxu@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fix for libpthread
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10403030904040.17237-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040303061144.GE56622@elvis.mu.org>

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On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> This assertion doesn't seem necessary.  Apply to 
> src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c

No, it's not necessary, but the only consumers of spinlocks
are libc and we don't want libc calling locking functions
when we're not threaded.  It was an anti-foot-shooting
thing I believe.

-- 
Dan Eischen



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