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Posted to dev@apr.apache.org by "Victor J. Orlikowski" <v....@gte.net> on 2001/06/01 02:16:35 UTC

Re: Build failure due to pthread_rwlock_t

 > So, the only thing we need to look out for breaking anything is
 > _XOPEN_SOURCE=500, which simply enforces Single Unix conformance.
 > Therefore, I think it's probably safe to put these flags into
 > apr_hints.m4.
 > The question is, does this apply only to versions of Linux greater
 > than (or equal to) 2.0?

Yuck. I have to follow myself up.
I'm putting this in, for Linux 2.0 and later.
In Linux 2.0, the clone() syscall was created, which is used to do
threading. If rwlocks are present, then they will work with 2.0 and
later.

Victor
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