Comments about FreeBSD threading from Apache people

Mark Dixon mark at markdnet.demon.co.uk
Tue Nov 11 08:09:18 PST 2003


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On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 11:30, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > If you want libc_r deprecated sooner, get /etc/libmap.conf installed,
> > defaulting libc_r to libkse. Most people (including me), just use the
> > defaults. I've just found libmap.conf by chance, while trying to resolve
> > a build issue on a program that uses pthread_spinlock_* and POSIX
> > semaphore calls. You'd have more testers that way too.
>
> Something like this is under consideration for 5.2.

I'm an occasional reader of this list, so I may not know what I'm talking
about, but wouldn't this break anything that tries to used threads and
Nvidia's OpenGL together? As KDE does this by default (when using x11/
nvidia-driver), wouldn't this break a lot of people's systems (I'm pretty
sure it would break mine)?

Mark
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