Re: lock, tls, and single-threaded applications

[Bruno Haible]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> That has made me consider (if/when sort does become
> multithreaded) building specified multithreaded programs in
> coreutils against a separate thread-safe gnulib instance,
> so that the remaining 100 programs don't suffer just because
> sort flipped the MT switch.

Makes sense. Just for info, gettext already uses 3 gnulib instances.
Each has its independent set of options like --source-base, so there are
no conflicts. The size of the distribution tarball is increased, as are
the compilation times, but that is not a problem nowadays.

Bruno