Grim state of libpthread (needs serious cleanup)

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Mon Mar 16 05:17:18 UTC 2009


On Sunday 15 March 2009 22:55:56 Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> I am going to add this script to docs/* in hope to at least
> start some cleanup work. Libpthread (any of its three flavors
> we have) is poorly documented and looks too complex.

"too complex" is an opinion :p.  attempting to "clean up" linuxthreads beyond 
anything cursory is a waste of time and likely to result in unnoticed 
regressions.

> This quick check shows that there are many functions
> exported which should not be.

that's because glibc uses a version script to handle exported functions while 
we do not.
-mike
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