Re: _POSIX_THREADS in

2006-04-28 Thread Barry deFreese
- Original Message - From: "Roland McGrath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Barry deFreese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 8:34 PM Subject: Re: _POSIX_THREADS in > I won't define it until we have a real libpthread implementat

Re: _POSIX_THREADS in

2006-04-28 Thread Roland McGrath
> > I won't define it until we have a real libpthread implementation that > > interacts correctly with libc and has all the right hairy semantics. > > An extra libpthread that is not integrated with libc will never be a true > > POSIX implementation. > > This is going to be a dumb question, but wh

Re: _POSIX_THREADS in

2006-04-27 Thread Barry deFreese
- Original Message - From: "Roland McGrath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Banck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 3:13 PM Subject: Re: _POSIX_THREADS in While reading the patch I noticed that you #defined _POSIX_THREADS t

Re: _POSIX_THREADS in

2006-04-27 Thread Roland McGrath
> While reading the patch I noticed that you #defined _POSIX_THREADS to -1 > in it. I thought we have a posix thread implementation provided by > libpthread, so I am a bit confused. Is this about something else? I won't define it until we have a real libpthread implementation that interacts corr

_POSIX_THREADS in

2006-04-27 Thread Michael Banck
Hi Roland, I included your recent patch overhauling bits/posix_opt.h to Debian's glibc package as _POSIX_THREAD_SAFE_FUNCTIONS is needed to be defiend in order to build libX11 properly. While reading the patch I noticed that you #defined _POSIX_THREADS to -1 in it. I thought we have a posix thre