Co-opting signals

[Kip Macy]

libc_r has been disconnected from the build for some time.

On 10/8/07, Girish Hilage <girish_hilage at persistent.co.in> wrote:
> Thanks Daniel for your response.
> But I want to know if libc_r is still(in it's latest version) co-opting
> signals internally?
>
> Regards,
> Girish
>
> On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 15:01 -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Girish Hilage wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >    I heard that, user level pthreads co-opt some signals to get their
> > > job done.
> > >    Can anybody please let me know which are these signals?
> >
> > Not true since 4.x since only libc_r did this.  Since FreeBSD 5.x,
> > the default thread libraries (libpthread/libkse, and libthr) do
> > not use signals for their implementation.  Under 5.x and subsequent,
> > just compile and link your program normally (use -pthread or
> > -lpthread when linking) and you will get the default thread
> > library (not libc_r, which has been deprecated in 7.x/current).
> >
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