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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: YANDQ
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 01:20:11 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 1:14 AM
Subject: Re: YANDQ


> On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 08:27:45PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> >Are these specs way off base? If not, how do I go about altering
> >sys/types.h (which I note appears to be part of newlib).
>
> You submit a patch to the newlib mailing list which is conditionalized
> #ifdef __CYGWIN__
> #endif
>
> I can approve patches like this as long as they don't make changes to
> any non-cygwin part of newlib.
>
> cgf
>

Great. I'll do these changes as part of the threads overhaul. I've got
the revamped code going with the minor issue that after CVS updating,
something bad has broken :[ , and it's a lot cleaner.

I think I can tell you why the arrays where there in the first place:
a) avoid testing for readable memory and
b) to implement pthread_self (gets a pthread_t referring to the current
thread).

I've implemented a) as we discussed already and b) using a Tls Index for
the local thread object.

Rob