On 02-Sep-98 John Birrell wrote:
> > ability to easily check between standards? ie is there a good reason to not
> > back that change out until a more comprehensive set of patches comes along?
> I don't agree with Terry's assessment of Draft 10 vs Draft 4 issues
> in libc_r. AFAIK, the interfaces there are 1003.1c, and they exercise
> the POSIX standard clause: "either it shall be implemented like this or
> not implemented". Too many threaded programs assume that all the optional
> functions are supposed to be implemented.
OK, I did not know this. (yeah yeah.. I didn't do any research on it :)
It sounds like it has turned into a defacto standard for determining the thread
version on the system though :(
> Just because you read it in a message on a mailing list doesn't make it
> true.
Thats true, but my experience with threaded programs is kind of limited, so I
am forced to take advice from other people :)
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