[17490] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Platform Assumptions: what does it mean to assume threads?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Mon Jan 30 13:19:51 2012
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:19:36 -0500
In-Reply-To: <4F26D906.8080304@mit.edu> (Greg Hudson's message of "Mon, 30 Jan
2012 12:53:10 -0500")
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>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
Greg> On 01/30/2012 12:35 PM, Sam Hartman wrote:
>> What are we actually talking about doing if we change our
>> threading assumption?
Greg> We could remove the ENABLE_THREADS conditional. But on
Greg> further inspection, this doesn't really get rid of much code,
Greg> and it's pretty much all in k5-thread.h and
Greg> util/support/threads.c. So it may not be worth the cost
Greg> (which would be making life slightly harder for obscure
Greg> platforms).
OK, so you are not talking about say always linking against -lpthread on
Linux?
I'd be nervous about doing that and would definitely want to ask more
knowledgable Linux people before going down that path.
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