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Re: thread stack size

From: Holger Rauch <holger.rauch_at_heitec.de>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:43:51 +0100

Hi Daniel!

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Jean-Yves Lefort wrote:
> > This issue might be the cause of the BSD problem reports mentioned in
> > http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/threadsafe.html. For instance, FreeBSD has a 64k
> > default thread stack size.
>
> No, this is not the case. The BSD systems have always suffered from lousy
> thread code, this is no secret and has nothing to do with anything particular
> in curl or libcurl. The problems people have had using multi-threaded programs
> on *BSD with curl also appeared long before we even had the content_encoding.c
> source file! ;-)

Is this still valid even for the current FreeBSD (5.X) versions?

Thanks in advance for any info!

Greetings,

        Holger
Received on 2004-03-21