Re: src/port/fseeko.c revision 1.9 broken on NetBSD

The change was made because a BSD/OS developer said flockfile was POSIX,
and pointed to something that suggested NetBSD supports it. I will back
out the change. We really don't need fseeko/ftello to be thread safe
anyway.

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Giles Lean wrote:

Hi Bruce,

The change in revision 1.9 of src/port/fseeko.c to include <pthread.h>
and use flockfile() and funlockfile() on NetBSD causes the file not to
compile:

1. there is no <pthread.h> on any NetBSD release (yet)

2. flockfile() and funlockfile() appear in <stdio.h> commented
out by #if 0 ... #endif and are not implemented.

I'm not sure if I led you astray on the presence of these functions
on NetBSD. My appologies if I did; a grep of /usr/include/*.h is
misleading. Whatever POSIX extension they're part of is not yet
implemented on NetBSD.

The fix is to revert to revision 1.8. I could send you a diff, but
it's pretty boring. :-)

Regards,

Giles

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