[Samba] to pthread or not to pthread

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Apr 7 11:55:44 MDT 2010


On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 11:20:38AM -0400, Chris Smith wrote:
> Any consensus or recommendations on whether or not to compile samba
> with pthreads and/or enabling the pthreadpool on a modern Linux
> distro?

The Samba code itself doesn't use pthreads directly, but
many of the subsystems it uses (eg. ldap, aio) do. So
you're almost certainly compiling with pthreads whether
you want to or not :-).

Jeremy.


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