>A customer had a small program using pthreads that crashed pretty much at startup. After verifying the crash on my system, I noticed that the customer >had not linked the program with libpthread. Adding -lpthread to the linking > command fixed the problem. > >If a program does not link a needed library, shouldn't it fail at link time? >As it is, the program links and loads, but crashes mysteriously. Why is this >a good idea? Why are there entry points in /lib/libc.so.1 for pthread >functions, > but not the pthread functionality?
Your customer is not using Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris; on those systems, there's no longer a specific -lthread or -lpthread. They all live in libc. For older releases, he must make sure that he handles all error returns from pthread* and such. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
