I can try it on my three systems and let you know. David
When "purifying" dxexec I couldn't help but notice billyuns and billyuns of signal 48's... that's SIGPTRESCHED. Seems like a lot of kernel activity for possibly not much benefit on a uniprocessor. I cut -lpthread manually from the link line of dxexec-- to no ill effect. Glancing at configure, if there is a pthread library, we link it. We don't check to see if it is actually required. Buggy pthread implementations are an exposure: pthreads seem to be an area of frequent OS patches. Plus we are defaulting to e.g. cc not cc_r, therefore we are counting on libc being libc_r. X must also be thread-safe. These are not givens across platforms, as some prior appends attest. What platforms require -lpthread? Should we exclude -lpthread on systems that can link without it? What would the configure test be?
............................................................................. David L. Thompson The University of Montana mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Science Department http://www.cs.umt.edu/u/dthompsn Missoula, MT 59812 Work Phone : (406)257-8530
