Subject: Re: stdio FILE extension
To: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/18/2001 11:30:19
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Michael Richardson wrote:
: Assume that we do a thread-safe libc. (libc_r or some such).
: It would be nice if we could dispense with all the renames at that
: point. One doesn't link with both. The above check would also come in handy.
Most of our libc is already thread-safe, and thread hooks exist to provide
mutex support for libc internals where needed. Much of this work was done
by kleink, IIRC.
(In short, our "thread-safe libc" will be "libc", not a separate library.)
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