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Date:      Tue, 8 Jun 2004 01:34:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: weak implementation of threads has problems - kse fix attached
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10406080126400.27228-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040608051347.GA3604@freebsd3.cimlogic.com.au>

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On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, John Birrell wrote:

> [ cross-post lists cut back, ports added 8-) ]
> 
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:48:45PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > A good addition to bsd.port.mk, right next to the "possible network
> > server" etc checks, might be to run ldd on all installed shared
> > libraries and print a warning if any threads libraries show up.  There
> > are a huge number of ports that install shlibs linked to libpthreads.
> 
> Good idea.

Just picking a message at random to reply to...

In case anyone wonders why we don't use strong references, I chose to
mimic what Solaris does:

  bash-2.05$ nm /lib/libpthread.so.1 | grep pthread_mutex_lock
  0000000000003c80 T _pthread_mutex_lock
  0000000000003c80 W pthread_mutex_lock

  bash-2.05$ nm /lib/libc.so.1 | grep pthread_mutex_lock
  0000000000096c38 W _pthread_mutex_lock
  0000000000096c38 W pthread_mutex_lock

It is also easy to provide your own version of pthread_foo() without
having any strong references override it.

-- 
Dan Eischen



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