Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:12:15 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com> Cc: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting libc_r from -current to -stable Message-ID: <3D6E720F.566DEEDF@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10208290939430.12954-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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Daniel Eischen wrote: > In -current, we modified FILE (/usr/include/stdio.h) and added > (or changed) a field to use for holding a mutex that is used by > flockfile (lib/libc/stdio/_flock_stub.c). We broke the ABI > in order to do this, and it was very painful (just search for > "the whole stdio mess" or something like that in the -current > archives). You cannot do this for -stable. > > You're going to have to keep the hashtable method of locking > FILEs. It's got to be a bogus piece of code that lacks the feature test wrapper for _SGI_REENTRANT_FUNCTIONS (IMO). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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