Threads, glibc, and all that

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199802241050.KAA09881@quickstep.stanford.edu >you write:
  > 
  > >>>>> "Jason" == Jason Merrill <jason@cygnus.com> writes:
  > 
  >     Jason> The simplest fix for this is to change sigset_t to
  >     Jason> __sigset_t in /usr/include/pthread.h.  Of course, this
  >     Jason> requires root.
  > 
  > Surely, though, we can't ship 1.0.2 with this problem?  The whole
  > point of your collaboration with HJ was to provide thread-safety, but
  > now non-threaded users can't use <string> without modifying their
  > installed headers?  If the headers are really broken, shouldn't we use
  > fixincludes to fix them?
Yes, we can use fixinclude sto fix them.  However, many Linux systems
(incorrectly IMHO) do not run fixincludes.



jeff