Fixing -pthreads (Re: ports and -current)

[Daniel Eischen]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Marcin Dalecki wrote:

> Scott Long wrote:
> 
> > I'm perfectly happy to support the libkse->libpthread switch, and I'm
> > perfectly happy to support making libpthread be the default threading
> > library.  But, I strongly believe that we need to also treat -pthread
> > sanely.
> 
> You have to decide what the therading lib should be indeed.
> However recent expirence shows that a 1:n model seems to be the
> one the world over you is gearing around: Linux never did anything else.
> Windows anyway. Solaris switched from n:m to 1:n on the step between
> version 8 and 9.... Having two of them isn't the solution for me as a developer
> since I'm simply not interresed in debugging both cases.

This is a reason why -pthread shouldn't imply linking
to any one library.  If you only want to deal with
libthr or libthread (KSE in 1:1 mode), then you are
free to choose them and only them.

-- 
Dan Eischen