| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de>, Gevik Babakhani <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: VC2005 build and pthreads |
| Date: | 2007-02-05 14:21:11 |
| Message-ID: | 200702051421.l15ELBv20195@momjian.us |
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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
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> On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 02:05:41PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Anyway. We hard-code thread-safety to on for Win32, because win32 is a
> > threaded platform in general - almost everything can be exposed to
> > threading even if they don't want it. For example a VB program that has
> > no threading at all can still run with multiple threads because of the
> > framework.
>
> It'd be nice if we could do the same for some Unix platofrms like
> Linux. The C library uses threads internally, and there's no actual
> downside to enabling thread safety there, except removing a few failure
> modes.
I was not aware this was true on Linux.
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Bruce Momjian bruce(at)momjian(dot)us
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