Comments about FreeBSD threading from Apache people

[Daniel Eischen]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Mark Dixon wrote:

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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.
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> > Something like this is under consideration for 5.2.
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> 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)?

Yes, it'll break.  You can use a libmap.conf if you want to
override the threads library with libc_r.  But Nvidia will
have to rebuild their drivers/libraries to use dynamic LDT
allocation if they are to be used for future FreeBSD releases.

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Dan Eischen