Re: VC2005 build and pthreads

From: Douglas McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, 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 16:00:09
Message-ID: 8764agoara.fsf@suzuka.mcnaught.org
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:

> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

>> 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.

It uses threads at least for the POSIX AIO calls--I'm not sure what
else.

-Doug

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