On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:58:22PM +0200, Carlo Wood wrote: > A user of ext3grep had a configuration problem > that I tracked down to the fact that > > pkg-config --cflags ext2fs > > returns > > -pthread > > Why does it return -pthread ? What distribution and what version of e2fsprogs is this user using? I'm going to guess that he is using SuSE or some OpenSuSE derivitive, and it's because SuSE bludgeoned in a pthreads mutex into the internals of libcom_err. Since libext2fs can call libcom_err, it follows that a program that links with libext2fs needs to also be compiled and linked with -pthread. It's for this reason I've resisted including SuSE's, because the race they are concerned about is largely theoretical, and it causes problems for people who want to link against libcom_err. What I probably should do add in locking using sem_wait/sem_post, which doesn't require any Posix pthread nonsense. - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
