Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:33:07 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> Cc: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multithreaded qsort(3) Message-ID: <20070318053307.GC73385@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <200703151827.39963.max@love2party.net> References: <45F906ED.8070100@aueb.gr> <200703151827.39963.max@love2party.net>
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Max Laier wrote this message on Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 18:27 +0100:
> I'd suggest to name it qsort() and put it in a separate library (not
> necessarily named libc_mt, as I don't believe there are that many
> functions in libc, that can actually gain from multithreading).
What happens when you attempt to link a library that uses qsort, but
isn't multi-thread safe? You may be able to protect calls to the
library w/ a lock, but then when it calls qsort, the library would
break..
Keeping the qsort name sounds ripe for problems down the road...
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