Craig Berry wrote:
!To really stress test this with multiple threads going after the same
!directory stream I'd need an SMP machine to test on, which I don't have.
!But I think we are at least somewhat safer than we were before.
Can you specify which thread option to configure.com to use?
Also:
Thanks to those who replied to my query about readdir and thread safety.
I've dug around a bit, read the POSIX spec for readdir_r, and come up
with the implementation in the attached patch. It basically just adds a
mutex gizmo to the directory stream structure and puts a lock on it
while calling th