Since CF is really an implementation detail of Foundation for corelibs, let’s 
use the CF implementation for Foundation.

- Tony

> On May 10, 2016, at 12:10 PM, Chris Bailey via swift-corelibs-dev 
> <swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org> wrote:
> 
> NSOperation.swift currently makes a call to pthread_main_np() on line 536. 
> This causes a compilation failure on Linux as there isn't an implementation 
> of pthread_main_np() in Glibc. 
> 
> There's few ways of fixing this. Before I go ahead and implement one of them, 
> I'd like to get some input on what we thing is the best approach. 
> 
> The most obvious approach would be to leverage the shim we've added to 
> CoreFoundation already. We implemented pthread_main_np() using the following 
> function in CFPlatform.c: 
> Boolean _CFIsMainThread(void) { 
>     return syscall(SYS_gettid) == getpid(); 
> } 
> This is only available internally to CF, but could be exposed to Foundation, 
> either as _CFIsMainThread() or as pthread_main_np(). 
> 
> Other options would be to expose the pthread_main_np() shim that's in 
> Dispatch already (again internally), or to add it to the Glibc overlay so its 
> available globally. 
> 
> Any thoughts on the best approach? 
> 
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