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Subject: RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 12:21:41 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Dave Korn
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:48 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows
> 
> On 05 July 2007 16:33, Bob McConnell wrote:
> 
> 
> > If I read this right, you are saying there are no reported 
> conflicts in
> > pthread resources between multiple processes. That is all I 
> wanted to
> > know. I don't like to waste time diagnosing known problems 
> and then be
> > told much later that there is an easy workaround.
> > 
> > I wasn't asking anyone to debug either my code or Cygwin. All I was
> > asking is if there are any known threading issues in this 
> situation. I
> > have no idea how you implemented pthreads, nor do I care. 
> Just knowing
> > that this may be covering new ground is adequate.
> 
>   Well yeh, but there might be /unknown/ problems in the 
> pthreads code, which
> we'd love to fix if we knew they were there.

And since I now know the effort may be worth while, I will try to help
track it down.

Bob McConnell

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