POSIX threads documentation

Andreas Schwab schwab@redhat.com
Mon Sep 13 14:42:00 GMT 2010


"Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@systemhalted.org>
writes:

> Can you do this?
>
> if (pthread_mutex_lock != 0)
> {
>   /* OK, thread library is loaded so we need to use a threading
>      API to ensure correct handling of global data.  */
>   ...
> }

There is no need for that, all relevant pthread functions are available
in libc (as stubs that forward to libpthread if loaded).

Andreas.

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