weak implementation of threads has problems - kse fix attached

[Daniel Eischen]

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On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 00:32, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Sean McNeil wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Up front, I'd like to make a few apologies:
> > > 
> > > 1) I am sorry for the length of this email.
> > > 2) Although some very valid opinions have been expressed, I respectfully
> > > have to disagree.  This email will hopefully strengthen my position.
> > 
> > Please stop spamming multiple lists.
> > 
> > No, I don't want to litter all our thread libraries with strong references.
> > As I've said before, build your shared libraries correctly so they don't
> > bring in the threads library.
> 
> In order to do this, I'm a strong proponent of making -pthread the
> default PTHREAD_LIBS from 4.X and 5.X.  This will do the right thing in
> all cases, and reduces diffs among branches.  What is keeping this from
> happening from a threading standpoint?

Nothing from what I can see.

-- 
Dan Eischen