From: madarasz AT erols DOT com (Alex P. Madarasz, Jr.)
Subject: Re: posix threads
20 Oct 1998 12:19:15 -0700
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Mumit Khan wrote on 18 Oct 98, 22:57 :
>
> 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.
> 
> For those looking at a cross-platform threading package might want to look
> at omniORB (http://www.orl.co.uk/omniORB/omniORB.html).

For those who can't find a reference to the thread classes amongst all the ORB 
stuff, read bullet 3 of :

   <http://www.orl.co.uk/omniORB/omniORBTechnical.html>

"
The omniORB2 runtime is fully multithreaded. It uses native platform thread 
support encapsulated with a small class library, omnithread, to abstract away 
from differences in native thread APIs.
"

Also, for a possible alternative, see Steve Baker's ThreadBare :

   <http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1/tb/index.html>

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