Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: drop unlocked-io dependency in getline module?

[Jim Meyering]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
...
>> What is it what disturbs you with the amount of dependencies? The maintenance
>> work? Don't you trust the code? The size of the distribution? The time
>> "configure" takes to complete?
>
> For me it is that the dependencies create requirements on my code that
> make things more complicated.  Some examples:
...
> unlocked-io (included implicitly by several modules): claims to be
> thread unsafe.

In the case of unlocked-io.h, you can disable the thread-unsafe
optimizations by defining USE_UNLOCKED_IO to `0' (e.g. in config.h).