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Re: Re[4]: Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC

Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>

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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Xu Yifeng <jamexu@telekbird.com.cn>, "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-03-16T20:15:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> On 3/16/01, 11:10:34 AM, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> wrote 
> regarding Re: Re[4]: [HACKERS] Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC :
> 
> > But, with shared libraries, are you really pulling in a "whole
> > thread-support library"?  My understanding of shared libraries (altho it
> > may be totally off) was that instead of pulling in a whole library, you
> > pulled in the bits that you needed, pretty much as you needed them ...


* Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> [010316 10:02] wrote:
> Yes, you are.  On UnixWare, you need to add -Kthread, which CHANGES a LOT 
> of primitives to go through threads wrappers and scheduling.
> 
> See the doc on the http://UW7DOC.SCO.COM or http://www.lerctr.org:457/ 
> web pages.
> 
> Also, some functions are NOT available without the -Kthread or -Kpthread 
> directives. 

This is true on FreeBSD as well.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]