Re: our :shared $foo / iThreads

[Dan Sugalski]

At 08:18 PM 5/3/2001 -0400, Benjamin Sugars wrote:
>On Thu, 3 May 2001, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>
> > The "today" implementation of Perl most definitely isn't calling
> > getpwnam_r() et alia, and Dan is very aware of the fact :-)
> > (reference: the Todo file)
>
>Errr, I see... the nefarious "Would be nice to have" section.
>
>I forsee Configure madness -- and worse -- down that path, but would it
>actually help in the end?

Madness for other folks--I'm one of the lucky ones to be working on a 
platform with a non-broken C RTL. (Whatever Tru64 is called these days is 
similar, IIRC)

                                        Dan

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