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Date:      Wed, 02 Sep 1998 17:46:09 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu, tlambert@primenet.com
Subject:   Re: Thread calls
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980902174609.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199809020824.SAA28063@cimlogic.com.au>

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On 02-Sep-98 John Birrell wrote:
> > ability to easily check between standards? ie is there a good reason to not
> > back that change out until a more comprehensive set of patches comes along?
>  I don't agree with Terry's assessment of Draft 10 vs Draft 4 issues
>  in libc_r. AFAIK, the interfaces there are 1003.1c, and they exercise
>  the POSIX standard clause: "either it shall be implemented like this or
>  not implemented". Too many threaded programs assume that all the optional
>  functions are supposed to be implemented.
OK, I did not know this. (yeah yeah.. I didn't do any research on it :)
It sounds like it has turned into a defacto standard for determining the thread
version on the system though :(

>  Just because you read it in a message on a mailing list doesn't make it
>  true.
Thats true, but my experience with threaded programs is kind of limited, so I
am forced to take advice from other people :)

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|Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software |
|http://www.gsoft.com.au                                            |
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