Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
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> On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 02:05:41PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Anyway. We hard-code thread-safety to on for Win32, because win32 is a
> > threaded platform in general - almost everything can be exposed to
> > threading even if they don't want it. For example a VB program that has
> > no threading at all can still run with multiple threads because of the
> > framework.
>
> It'd be nice if we could do the same for some Unix platofrms like
> Linux. The C library uses threads internally, and there's no actual
> downside to enabling thread safety there, except removing a few failure
> modes.
I was not aware this was true on Linux.
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