Dummy pthread functions in libc considered harmful

[Andreas Schwab]

Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> writes:

> It's usually not programs which call pthread_mutex, but libraries which
> want to be thread-safe without actually bringing the libpthread
> dependencye.

Does the reason for avoiding the dependency still exist?  Surely the
overhead of libpthread has been greatly reduced since the days of
linuxthreads.

Andreas.

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