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Re: [PATCH v4] Make bindresvport() function to multithread-safe
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
> I appreciate your fastidiousness, but frankly this is a ridiculous amount
> of effort to expend on an obscure and little-used function that we would
> never even consider adding to the libc ABI today if it hadn't been there
> from the beginning, and that we've already concluded there is no actual
> mandate to make thread-safe to begin with. We're all volunteers and each
> of us spends his time how he likes, but if your interest is in improving
> the C library technically or serving its developer community or user
> community effectively, this is near the bottom of the list of priorities.
My goal is drive a user submitted patch to consensus and in doing so involve
a company like Fujitsu in glibc development.
Shall we accept the mutex solution?
Cheers,
Carlos.