Subject: Re: pthreads in YahooPOPs
From: egor duda <[email-masked]>
To: Andrew Lynch <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:49:42 +0400

Hi!

Sunday, 13 October, 2002 Andrew Lynch [email-masked] wrote:

AL> http://sourceforge.net/projects/yahoopops 

AL> on Cygwin but have run into a problem with pthreads.  

AL> The lines below do not compile even though Cygwin
AL> supports pthreads and pthread.h is included in the
AL> header file.

AL> lock.__m_reserved = 0;
AL> lock.__m_count = 0;
AL> lock.__m_owner = 0;
AL> lock.__m_kind = PTHREAD_MUTEX_TIMED_NP;
AL> lock.__m_lock.__status = 0;
AL> lock.__m_lock.__spinlock = __LT_SPINLOCK_INIT;

AL> Does anyone know why these pthread commands(?) are not
AL> supported or won't compile?

The project you're talking about is using non-portable method of
dealing with pthreads. Pthread interface doesn't specify an internal
structure of pthread primitives, so their actual implementation may
vary (and does vary) between different systems. You should ask
YahooPOPs people to use portable constructs so that their code can be
compiled on any system which supports pthread interface.

Egor.            mailto:[email-masked] ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19

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