[PATCH, v3] Potential solution to librt issue.

[Paolo Bonzini]

> What does this imply for your idea? I understand, correct me if I'm 
> wrong, that not-exporting the symbol, arranging for the call to be 
> inside an header, would make the issue easier to solve. But then, what 
> would happen if the user code actually uses now? Would have to be linked
> on a case-by-case basic to libpthread? 

Yes, but we could arrange it so that the libpthread linking occurs 
automagically.  Note that adding -lpthread is also automatic when you 
add -lrt; so Chris' patch is only breaking -static, whereas in the 
common case it only affects performance.

Paolo