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. -- +------------------------------------+ ______ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / hard at work in | / \ julian_at_elischer.org +------>x USA \ a very strange | ( OZ ) \___ ___ | country ! +- X_.---._/ presently in San Francisco \_/ \\ vReceived on Mon Mar 29 2004 - 18:57:32 UTC
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