Re: horrible disk thorughput on itanium

Richard Gooch
2001-12-07T17:41:10Z

Robert Love writes:
> On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 11:14, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> > This kind of thing should be covered by _REENTRANT. If you don't
> > compile with _REENTRANT (the default), then putc() should be the
> > unlocked version.
>
> The link to the mailing list post from bug-glibc says otherwise,
> that is the problem. Using the unlocked version isn't implied by
> not setting __REENTRANT.

The bug is in glibc. An application shouldn't need to be changed to
work around that bug. putc() is a well-known interface, and people
shouldn't have to code around a change in that interface.

Regards,

Richard....
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