Multithreaded qsort(3)

[John-Mark Gurney]

Max Laier wrote this message on Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 18:27 +0100:
> I'd suggest to name it qsort() and put it in a separate library (not 
> necessarily named libc_mt, as I don't believe there are that many 
> functions in libc, that can actually gain from multithreading).

What happens when you attempt to link a library that uses qsort, but
isn't multi-thread safe?  You may be able to protect calls to the
library w/ a lock, but then when it calls qsort, the library would
break..

Keeping the qsort name sounds ripe for problems down the road...

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