Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 20:55:33 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: nss_ldap broken Message-ID: <4068FDC5.9020400@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <1080620557.31373.13.camel@server.mcneil.com> References: <20040330023247.GA5637@madman.celabo.org> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10403292214380.12734-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> <20040330034315.GC5998@madman.celabo.org> <1080620557.31373.13.camel@server.mcneil.com>
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Sean McNeil wrote:
>
> There are many programs and libraries out there that are pulling in
> pthread just because they want to be thread-safe (just a guess). Of
> course there are also those libraries that actually use threads, but it
> is admirable to make any library thread-safe even if no threads are
> used.
One of my aims on designing the structure under libpthreads was to allow
a library to use threads while attached to a main program that doesn;t know that
it is linked as a threaded process.
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