From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-01-10T00:25:07+09:00
Subject: Re: --enable-pthreads option

Hi,

In message "--enable-pthreads option"
    on 04/01/09, "James F. Hranicky" <jfh@cise.ufl.edu> writes:

|Out of curiosity, does the --enable-pthreads switch cause ruby threads
|to use pthreads, or is the option there simply for linking against
|pthreaded libraries?

It makes Ruby linked with libpthread, and to use pthread internally,
to deal with extensions likned with libpthread.  But it does not make
Ruby thread-safe, nor make Ruby thread use pthread.

							matz.