samba shares access issue in Solaris from a MT program
David Collier-Brown
davec-b at rogers.com
Fri Oct 8 16:38:29 GMT 2004
Richard Sharpe wrote:
>> OK, I believe I know where to fix this in configure.in, but, remind me
>> again why we need to do this?
>>
>> In particular, why would we restrict this to Solaris?
>
>
> This applies to Solaris because of the different thread model
> it uses, quite different from Linux. The thread-safe errno
> is turned on by -D_REENTRANT, allowing the library to be
> used (given appropriate locking) with Gnome. In principle,
> this applies to any samba library which is properly protected
> by locks in the caller, as is the case in Gnome.
And just to be clear, the -D_REENTRANT doesn't introduce
anything that would mess up a normal program, just a
change to the thread-safe errno.
Can you apply this?
--dave
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