Don Cragun wrote: > The one-pager for this project says (in section 3.6) that it doesn't > duplicate core Solaris components. But the description of the Pth > library provided by this case sure sounds like it is trying to duplicate > the behavior of the Solaris pthread library and major chunks of basic > libc functions like read[v] and write[v]. > > Why shouldn't this be considered a duplication of the core Solaris POSIX > threads features even though it adds a "pth_" to the front of a bunch of > standard function names? > > - Don
The Pth library is a secondary dependency, so I answered the question with the main code (GnuPG) in mind. That said, yes it is a bit of duplication. However, the code will not work without it and because some of the code is GPLv3, we cannot modify it to remove the dependency. -Wyllys
