From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: multithread programming
2 Feb 1999 01:51:52 -0800
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To: Stipe Tolj <tolj AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de>, Vasiliy <waso AT nstu DOT ru>
Cc: Alex <alexl AT i-france DOT com>, gnu-win32 mailing list <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>


Slow down a little.  There is currently work at Cygnus to port the
pthread package to cygwin.  I'd check on the progress there first.



---Stipe Tolj <tolj AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > unfortunatly Cygwin b19 (and b20) are _not_ multithread safe.
Therefore the
> > > posix thread pthread package from MIT won't work.
> >
> > Does it mean that it is impossible to port multithreaded
application from Unix
> > to Win32    ???
> 
> of course it _is_ possible if you consider to write pthread wrappers
that take out
> the multithreading ability of the application.
> 
> As you may know, Win9x shouldn't be considererd thread-safe at all,
therefore how
> could Cygwin fix that if it is a sub-system of the os. I just wanted
to say, that
> you can't compare Linux or Solaris (or what real UNIX ever) to
Cygwin for
> multithreading abilities.
> 
> I tried to port the MySQL database engine which uses the MIT's
pthreads. And I got
> stuck into deep trouble with the need of that pthread functions.
> 
> Maybe an upcoming release of Cygwin will be supporting the pthread
packages in
> some way.
> 
> Regards,
> Stipe
> 
> --
> Stipe Tolj <tolj AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de>
> 
> Cygwin Porting Project -- "We build UNIX on top of Windows"
> http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/
> 
> Department of Economical Computer Science
> University of Cologne, Germany
> 
> 
> 
> 
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