From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: Port of mit-pthreads to Cygwin32
8 Dec 1998 01:52:40 -0800
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Stipe Tolj wrote:
[...]
> Now about the mysql port itself. As you said it uses the mit-pthread
> package which is OS specific and is defenetly NOT supported for cygwin,
> since cygwin is NOT thread safe. So propably you can forget about
> porting the mit-pthread package to cygin at all.

BTW, we're nearly there with respect to Cygwin being thread-safe.
Cygwin should support pthreads soon but I don't have a time frame
yet...

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Geoffrey Noer
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