DB_THREAD support in Berkeley DB/glibc

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

If I'm not mistaken, David Huggins-Daines did this recently.  It is in
the debian packages of glibc in the latest release.


On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 09:04:12PM -0600, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> 
> I've just figured out that the reason openldap doesn't work is that it
> assumes all platforms support the DB_THREAD argument for db_appinit.
> 
> After looking at the glibc/Berkeley DB source, it turns out that all it
> needs is 10 or so lines of ASM for spinlocks.
> 
> Could someone working on glibc developement add the required ASM and get
> this into the mainline distribution? Thanks.
> 
> (look in glibc/db2/mutex, I believe )
> 
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Dan

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