From:	tolj AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de (Stipe Tolj)
Subject:	Re: posix threads
21 Oct 1998 19:06:39 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<362DA1B3.2583F597.cygnus.gnu-win32@uni-duesseldorf.de>
References:	<9810190357 DOT AA15522 AT modi DOT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>
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To:	Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>
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.

Sorry Mumit, that's what I wanted to point out.

Regards,
Stipe

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Stipe Tolj <tolj AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de>
Cygwin32 Porting Project
Department of Economical Computer Science
University of Cologne, Germany
http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~tolj




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