[Mono-devel-list] Embeding MONO and (p)threads

[David Jeske]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:38:53PM +0100, Dick Porter wrote:
> You need to make sure your whole embedded application is using the
> libgc-wrapped pthreads calls, not just the mono part.  See
> http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=46137 for more details.

While this seems acceptable for now, in the long term this seems like
a problem. As someone else pointed out, this will prevent Mono from
being embeddable inside any pre-built applications.

Can someone elaborate more about what causes this problem, and what we
might do about it in the future? For example:

Why does libgc need to override pthread functions? 

What is the problem with having some code talk directly to pthreads,
and some code talk to libgc's pthread overrides?

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