Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> I believe a while back I wondered if we might have trouble with
>> pthreads and fork unless we were very careful, and I'm beginning to
>> wonder again.
>
> Ahh, that sounds likely. If mutexes are unusable once
Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes. I think I have been here when investigating the popen blocking
> problem, but then I compiled Guile without thread support and I could
> still observe the blocking. (I stopped at that point, lazy me, but
> debugging should have been simpler witho
I see your points, but it still seems really gross to impose the two
sets of calls, esp. in 2006 when the transitional API should have been
transitioned already (with simply having 64-bit off_t all the time,
and ABI compat for old programs via syscall renumbering).
I think it's important that sys
