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Re: [PATCH] configure.com: sig_num, etc.

From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
March 17, 2003 02:40
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] configure.com: sig_num, etc.
Message ID:
20030317104011.L57288@plum.flirble.org
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:52:02AM +0100, A . Bergman wrote:
> 
> On fredag, mar 14, 2003, at 04:38 Europe/Stockholm, Craig A. Berry 
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > -- removed false impression that we support readdir_r in threaded
> > builds. The C run-time supports it but we are using a home-grown 
> > version
> > of readdir.
> >
> >
> 
> Can the home-grown version be made threadsafe? Is it threadsafe? (Does 
> anyone care?)

We're talking about VMS here, aren't we? I thought that they cared deeply
about threads. (because spawning a process is not cheap on VMS (or on
son-of-VMS))

Nicholas Clark

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