Re: [libmicrohttpd] libmicrohttpd 0.9.51 released

[Anthony G. Basile]

On 8/27/16 1:19 PM, Christian Grothoff wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> 
> I'm happy to announce the release of libmicrohttpd 0.9.47.
> 
> GNU libmicrohttpd is a small C library that is supposed to make it easy
> to run an HTTP server as part of another application. GNU libmicrohttpd
> is fully HTTP 1.1 compliant and supports IPv6. Finally, GNU
> libmicrohttpd is fast, portable and has a simple API and (without TLS
> support and other optional features) a small binary size (~32k).
> 
> 
> This is a maintenance release.  Changes include:
> * fixed possible crash on malformed request
> * fixes related to handling operating at configured connection limit
> * internal refactoring for nicer platform abstractions
> * improved error reporting
> * unit tests for mhd_str.c functions
> * add support for 308 status code
> 

I'm confused by this new configure option --disable-thread-names.  I get
what it does from the description, but why would you expose such an
option to the user?  What advantage/disadvantage are there to naming MHD
threads?


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