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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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