2009/12/2 Alexander Larsson <al...@redhat.com>: > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 11:48 +0000, jcup...@gmail.com wrote: >> 2009/12/2 Alexander Larsson <al...@redhat.com>: >> > I'm certainly for this. Does anyone know of any system in use where >> > gthreads are not availible? >> >> One problem I've had in the past is writing mysql plugins. >> >> I help maintain an image processing library, and one use of the >> library was a mysql plugin that added query-by-image-content. To get >> the plugin working we had to make sure we could run threadless. > > By threadless, do you mean not linking to the thread library, or do you > mean "don't spawn threads". Because initializing threads doesn't mean > we'll create threads, just that we make global us data threadsafe.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. You mustn't even link to pthreads when building mysql plugins. Or that used to be the case anyway. I tried a quick google but couldn't find anything saying whether or not this was still a problem, so this might all be a red herring anyway. John _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
