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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:17:02 -0600 (CST)
From: <ognen AT gene DOT pbi DOT nrc DOT ca>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: supporting pthreads on cygwin
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0111202012040.2544-100000@gene.pbi.nrc.ca>
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Hello,

I have a pthreads based application that compiles on several unix
platforms and I would like it to be able to compile under cygwin. I fixed
it up so that gcc doesnt complain, however, when I start the app with two
or more threads it sometimes stalls and sometimes works fine. The app
initiates a pool of threads where each thread works on its own queue of
requests. In order to start up the threads I use pthread_cond_wait and
pthread_cond_signal. I am sorry that I havent been on par with the pace of
cygwin development so I dont know if these functions are supported or not?
Are there any implementation issues with them? If so, I wouldnt mind
reworking the code so that it can go on about its business properly under
cygwin. The app is a threaded version of a widely used bioinformatics tool
and it wouldnt be bad if it could work under Windows/cygwin, just for the
sake of it...

Ognen



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