Re: threads stuff/UnixWare - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Larry Rosenman
Subject Re: threads stuff/UnixWare
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Msg-id DF384EF875797A56055FEB09@lerlaptop.lerctr.org
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In response to Re: threads stuff/UnixWare  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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--On Wednesday, May 12, 2004 15:39:54 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
wrote:

> Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> writes:
>> This is the whole discussion we had back in January/February about
>> forcing -Kpthread for *ALL* libpq using programs, or dynamically
>> determining if the image already is linked -Kpthread, or not supporting
>> threads at all on UW.
>
> Oh, that business :-(.  AFAIR we did not much care for any of the
> proposed alternatives.  Have you thought of any new options?
>
> At this point I'd settle for saying that --enable-thread-safety on
> Unixware will generate a library that requires -Kpthread.  This is
> kinda grungy but it seems that any more-pleasant solution would
> require a disproportionate amount of work.
If I did the work for the dlsym() stuff would you and the rest of core@
accept it?


>
>             regards, tom lane



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