Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 10:52:39 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: snarfy AT goodnet DOT com
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: New threads package available!
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On 16 Oct 1996 snarfy AT goodnet DOT com wrote:

>Well, the package would need to be re-written so that it would also
>swap the transfer buffer in and out with each task.  Libc would need
>to be re-written to make it re-entrant, and cwsdpmi would need to
>be modified. If I was going to modify cwsdpmi, I would change the 
>whole way that the lwp package task switches (with interrupts rather 
>than signals).  You might as well write your own OS for all of that
>trouble. ;)  The package was ment for multi-threading, not multitasking.
>I'm sorry that I got my terminology mixed up.  Btw, have you tried out
>the package?  What do you think?
I gave it a quick test and it works coool. Finally I was able to run BOTH int8
and int0 handlers on my system. It's really good.

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