Subject: RE: pthreads w/ cygwin32
From: [email-masked] (Jason Zions)

6 Mar 1998 01:09:39 -0800
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To: "[email-masked]'" <[email-masked]>,
        Sven Dietrich
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> pthreads was the first draft of the POSIX's user level threads
> standard.  Using the POSIX threads native to NT should work, but
> how do I do this within the cgywin32 development environment?
> 
There is no such thing as "the POSIX threads native to NT". NT threads are
different from POSIX threads (see 1003.1c-1995 as printed in 1003.1 1996
Edition). The Microsoft-provided POSIX subsystem does not support any form
of threads as supplied by them.

Jason Zions
Softway Systems Inc.
Makers of OpenNT, UNIX and more for Windows NT

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