Re: pthread stubs in libX11 vs. libxcb

Uli Schlachter <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Sep 2022 17:45:28 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.freedesktop.xcb,gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.devel
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Hi,

Am 29.09.22 um 06:27 schrieb Keith Packard:
> Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> Does anyone disagree?
> 
> Yeah, synchronizing with xcb seems 'obviously right. The only question
> I've got is that in 2022, should xcb ever use stubs for the thread functions?

No, it shouldn't. That's why since 2017, pthread-stub just links against 
pthread. It only does not do that if libc already includes the necessary 
stubs. See 
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/pthread-stubs/-/commit/8340ebd656c7e1a5b6d31170c1f3c87df043e793

Cheers,
Uli
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