Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes:

> Here's an attempt at that.  I'm not sure if this says everything that
> needs to be said, but I'm not sure what else to say.

> I considered saying, as Kurt does above, that two libraries could be
> provided, one with thread support and one without, but this poses some
> serious problems because both libraries could be loaded into the same
> process space and then conflict.  Doing this properly requires symbol
> versioning or some other similar mechanism, and at that point I think
> we're getting into something that's too difficult and specific to describe
> in Policy.  I think I'd rather just let the "should" rather than "must"
> provide wiggle-room for that.

> Objections or seconds?

This change has now been merged for the next release.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([email protected])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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