Message-Id: <3.0.16.19980214230158.5057866a@hem1.passagen.se>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 23:02:01 -0500
To: "A. Sinan Unur" <sinan DOT unur AT cornell DOT edu>
From: Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>
Subject: Re: Thread safe programs.
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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At 07.02 1998-02-14 -0500, you wrote:
>>Peter Palotas wrote:
>>>I was just wondering if someone could tell me what a thread-safe program
>>>includes, i.e. how one would make a program/library thread safe. I know
this
>>>isn't really a DJGPP specific question, but isn't it an important task when
>>>porting (and well, there is multithreading libs for DJGPP too).
>>>
>>>Ofcourse not using any global or static data would make a program
threadsafe
>>>(or?), but what if you are writing a library that NEEDS static or global
>>>data!? Can threads be disabled during the execution of a specific
functionin
>>>all multi-threading systems?
>>>
>>>Very greatful for a reply to this!
>> 
>> At 20.08 1998-02-13 -0500, you wrote:
>> >IIRC, there was a detailed discussion on this in 
>> >comp.lang.c.moderated a
>> >short time ago. at the time, i found it quite informative. you might
>> >want to give dejanews a try.
>> 
>> Where would I find old messages form this newsgroup?
>
>as i said, you might be able to find the thread using dejanews:
>www.dejanews.com.

I tried this, but I wasn't able to find any information about wether or not
it is a portable solution to assume that there is some way to disable
threads on all platforms from within the code, hence defining something
like "#define DISABLE_THREADS some_function();" and "#define ENABLE_THREADS
some_other_function();".

So if anyone could give me a good answer to this, I would be really
greatful, because my program really *needs* a global linked list, and I
want to know if I can somehow make sure it is thread safe on any
multi-threading platform. 

Very greatful for a reply!


-- Peter Palotas alias Blizzar -- blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se --

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