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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 11:19:18 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Some basic questions
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In-Reply-To: <20010202093657.M19867@cygbert.vinschen.de>; from cygwin@cygwin.com on Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 09:36:57AM +0100

On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 09:36:57AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> q2) What is the state of pthreads under cygwin ?  (The emulator is heavily multi-threaded).
>>      Currently we are using an implementation of pthreads from
>>      ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/pthreads-win32, and using the snapshot from August 13
>>      (later instances seem to require a dll that I haven't been successful in creating).
>
>Cygwin itself is not fully thead-aware. Contributions are welcome.

Hopefully, Cygwin's core is thread-aware, except for signals.  The
pthreads implementation is waiting for someone to fix it, though.

cgf

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