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Subject: RE: pthread_kill prototype
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Norman, if you use reply to all, it'll get to the mailing list.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Vine [mailto:nhv AT cape DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 12:09 PM
> To: Robert Collins
> Subject: RE: pthread_kill prototype
> 
> 
> Robert Collins writes:
> >> 
> >> AFAICT, you're the first person to actually try to use the pthread
> >> stuff and make it work correctly.  If Cygwin's implementation 
> >> was wrong
> >> then I don't see how any programs could be ported to it.
> >> 
> >> cgf
> >> 
> >
> >Well someone may have done
> >#ifdef __CYGWIN__
> >  pthread_kill(&var,sig)
> >#else
> > pthread_kill(var,sig)
> >#endif
> 
> actually this is only a problem when
> #if defined(_POSIX_THREADS) 
> 
> which I do not believe is defined anywhere in Cygwin
> so may never have beem picked up before
> 
> I have worked around this before with some nasty hacks
> but since Robert was redoing the package anyway I thought 
> it was an opportune time to bring this up.

Are you up to rebuilding those pacakges? I will be breaking the ABI by
fixing this - and it will be fixed this week.
_POSIX_THREADS is referred to by
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/threads.html as being
present on XSI systems. Now as I don't know what an XSI system is, I
wonder why _POSIX_THREADS showed up for you?

I will be defining some of those symbols as I go along, but until I get
the time to find a full blown pthreads test suite that'll run under
cygwin... (Norman if you've got some interest.. hint hint)

Rob

> 
> Cheers
> 
> Norman Vine
> 
> 
>