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On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:03:44PM -0600, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
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> 	So the app needs to be rewritten to use the threadlib functions. ugh.
> I thought that libc had weak aliases for the pthread functions, but I
> just realized that it has weak aliases for it's own internal threading
> functions instead. (why?)

So that the right thing happens for a pthread and a non-pthread program.=20
Other OSs have libc and libc_r. We didn't want to do that, and this=20
behavior lets us.

> 	Could we have a define that turns the functions in pthread.h into=20
> aliases for those in threadlib.h?  That could make fixing modules that
> currently link against pthread easier.  e.g.

I don't think that'd be a good idea. If you're using pthread.h, you're=20
using libpthread, not threadlib.

Take care,

Bill

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