Re: Thread implementations...

Richard Gooch (Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Sun, 28 Jun 1998 01:42:09 +1000


Albert D. Cahalan writes:
>
> Ulrich Drepper writes:
> >Richard Gooch <Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU> writes:
>
> >> aio_init() doesn't appear to be part of the standard. "POSIX.4
> >> Programming for the Real World" doesn't mention it.
> >
> > It comes from Irix. Since it's optional to call this
> > function I've implemented it.
>
> This hypocrisy is just incredible. You will leave it out of the
> header file, won't you? It is not Standard(TM) you know.
> It's only implemented in one foreign OS (not two, like llseek)
> and was not part of Linux libc 5 (like llseek was). Maybe Irix
> is now considered a Standard(TM), unlike SunOS and AIX.

You said it.

Regards,

Richard....

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