On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 06:17:17AM -0800, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> > Maybe not disable it (possible backward compat issues ?) but return error
> > if the value is not 1.
> 
> this setup is in pthread_init(), which returns void.
> this is called before main() as the constructor for the pthread library.
> "return an error" in this case would mean "cause the process to exit".
> 
> what compatibility issue are you concerned about?

Can a program be compiled statically with an older pthread library ?

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