From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: multithreaded or reentrant libraries
18 Jul 1998 09:31:29 -0700
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To: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich AT sarnoff DOT com>,
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On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 11:41:18PM -0400, Ron G. Minnich wrote:
> 
> I failed today to get some fellow researchers to standardize on the cygnus
> toolset as opposed to VC++ for Windows/NT. The principle objection was the
> lack of support for multithreaded apps. Any thoughts here on how far away
> this is would be good to hear. I was disappointed to see these folks
> choose a proprietary tool chain. 

No promises, but it's somewhat likely that Cygwin32 will support
multi-threaded apps (and the pthreads set of calls?) by the end of
1998.

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Geoffrey Noer
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