Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On 23 Jul 2003 at 13:35, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I thought glibc was the one to introduce libc_r in the first place --- > > are they making libc thread-safe now? > > AFAIK, glibc plays all threadsafe in glibc2. Don't know prior to that. Of > course they do record if some of the routines are not thread safe but there is > no separate library as such. > > by now, it is over all threadsafe. I don't have list of exceptions, but surely > they are pretty small, if any. > > > > > What OS's are still using libc_r for threaded-ness? I never liked that > > approach myself, and I resist adding it to our setup unless it is > > required. > > FreeBSD and windows..:-) Two I know of..
The strange thing is that accoring to template/freebsd, libc_r was _added_ in FreeBSD 5.0, while most OS are moving away from separate threaded libs. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
