From:	khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu (Mumit Khan)
Subject:	Re: posix threads
19 Oct 1998 09:36:08 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<9810190357.AA15522.cygnus.gnu-win32@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu>
References:	<3627DC2A DOT FFFB6EF8 AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de>
To:	Stipe Tolj <tolj AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de>
Cc:	"gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

Stipe Tolj <tolj AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de> writes:
> cygwin32 does not support MIT's pthread package since it required a
> thread-safe environment and Win95 defenetly is not. This is how many people
> told me, while I was porting some relational database systems using
> mutli-threading.

You've been misinformed. Win95 (by which I assume you mean MS runtime) is 
certainly thread-capable; it's cygwin32 layer that's not thread-safe.

For those looking at a cross-platform threading package might want to look
at omniORB (http://www.orl.co.uk/omniORB/omniORB.html).

Regards,
Mumit

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