Subject: Re: posix threads
From: [email-masked] (Mumit Khan)

19 Oct 1998 09:36:08 -0700
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To: Stipe Tolj <[email-masked]>
Cc: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>

Stipe Tolj <[email-masked]> 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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