pthreads

Sun Feb 28 23:02:00 GMT 1999

On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 12:02:53PM -0500, Steve Coleman wrote:
>Rick Blair wrote:
>>> Has anyone done a port of a pthreads package? 
>>See: 
>> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/pthreads-win32/
> http://www.cyberus.ca/~jebossom/pthread1c.html
>>I keep hearing that the cygwin kernel is not thread safe yet but have
>not heard anything on the status of that effort. Since all my software
>that I would like to port is multi-threaded I would look forward to
>hearing any status updates as to this effort. I signed up for the
>pthreads-win32 email list a while back but never received anything from
>it. I guess I will have to try again. :-}

I have posted recently that the latest cygwin snapshots can be configured
to be thread safe. This also enables some limited pthread support.
By configured I mean that you have to get the sources and run 'configure'
in winsup with the appropriate options. 'configure --help' will give you all of
the options available.
The thread-safe stuff is still experimental.
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