Re: Thread-safe configuration option appears to

Dann Corbit wrote:
> > Perhaps by 7.5 we can enable the above logic by default.
> > 
> > However, I do think we will have to mention the platforms 
> > that aren't thread-safe some day, of course, once we enable 
> > thread-safe by default.
> 
> Perhaps a portable BSD licensed threading library could be included for
> platforms that do not have a safe thread interface.
> 
> Is there a known list of functions with reentrancy problems?

That seems pretty heavy.  I think we could support a 3rd party thread
interface if someone wanted to write one, or perhaps it would just work
out of the box, and we could test for its existance via configure.

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