Re:

Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On 23 Jul 2003 at 13:35, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I thought glibc was the one to introduce libc_r in the first place ---
> > are they making libc thread-safe now?
>
> AFAIK, glibc plays all threadsafe in glibc2. Don't know prior to that. Of
> course they do record if some of the routines are not thread safe but there is
> no separate library as such.
>
> by now, it is over all threadsafe. I don't have list of exceptions, but surely
> they are pretty small, if any.
>
> >
> > What OS's are still using libc_r for threaded-ness? I never liked that
> > approach myself, and I resist adding it to our setup unless it is
> > required.
>
> FreeBSD and windows..:-) Two I know of..

The strange thing is that accoring to template/freebsd, libc_r was
_added_ in FreeBSD 5.0, while most OS are moving away from separate
threaded libs.

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