On May 25, 2004, at 4:00 AM, Gary Byers wrote:
As a random aside, only slightly related to this issue: does
anyone
else find it unsettling that much of the Darwin C library comes from
a version of FreeBSD (<<5.x) that didn't have kernel threads and is
therefore not concerned with thread-safety issues ? Hint: the Mach
kernel -does- have threads ...
According to Apple's web site,
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the current release of Darwin/MacOS X uses libc from BSD 5.0/5.1, but
also portions of the 4.8 BSD kernel.
I assume it's these portions of the 4.8 kernel you're worried about?
Raf
HelveticaRaffael Cavallaro, Ph.D.
raffaelcavallaro@mac.com