[Numpy-discussion] Default builds of OpenBLAS development branch are now fork safe

[Julian Taylor]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:25 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Just a heads up: thanks to the tireless work of Olivier Grisel, the OpenBLAS
> development branch is now fork-safe when built with its default threading
> support. (It is still not thread-safe when built using OMP for threading and
> gcc, but this is not the default.)
>
> Gory details: https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/issues/294
>
> Check it out - if it works you might want to consider lobbying your favorite
> distro to backport it.
>

debian unstable and the upcoming ubuntu 14.04 are already fixed.