[m-dev.] pragma import and the global lock

[Fergus Henderson]

On 25-Feb-2003, Peter Ross <pro at missioncriticalit.com> wrote:
> pragma import currently obtains the global lock when executing the
> imported predicate.  It is not clear to me that this should be the
> default behaviour seeing that one cannot turn it off.

Sure you can, just use the "thread_safe" attribute:

	:- pragma import(foo(...), [thread_safe], "foo").

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