Subj : Re: Linking without -lpthread doesn't fail??
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : dmarkh
Date : Wed Oct 05 2005 12:03 pm

I'm using Linux and NPTL.  I understand what you are saying but I don't
understand the purpose of such. I make a call to pthread_cond_timedwait
in a program. I forget to link with -lpthread. The function either does
nothing or in the case I put it in while loop waiting for ETIMEDOUT
waits forever.   while (nothing != ETIMEDOUT); ???

 I or others sit around scratching their head wondering why it's not
working. It linked ok so all must be ok. They might as well do that for
every function in every library so we no longer have to see the linker
complain about unresolved references at all. If they are going to do
that why would they do it for functions that have no real replacement
function for?

Make no sense to me.

pthread_cond_timedwait reports success BTW.

Thanks
Mark

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