Re: A few more questions and a one more problem

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@beer.com>]

On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 11:45:24PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>    Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 21:27:25 +0200
>    From: Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
> 
>    On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 07:56:49PM +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
>    > Problem :
>    > 
>    > printf () needs mutex'ing on Hurd (cthread)
>    > It didn't need it on Linux (pthread)
>    > And yes, I #defined _REENTRANT
> 
>    The Hurd uses libio, which indeed isn't thread safe. When we switch to stdio
>    this should not be a problem anymore.
> 
> Of course Marcus means it the other way around (we have stdio wich
> isn't thread safe and will have libio, which is thread safe).

So why the Hurd Reference Manual told me that :
<quote>
Every single library in Hurd distribution (including the GNU C library)
is completely thread-safe
</quote>