From: acottrel AT magna DOT com DOT au (Andrew Cottrell)
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Subject: Re: Search for DJGPP/POSIX Documentation
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 09:26:01 GMT
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Check out the DJGPP FAQ and it has a reference to PTHREADS which are:

``A Library Implementation of POSIX Threads for the SPARC / ix86'',
Version 3.5

The PART (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project) is happy to announce a new
release of the C sources of the Pthreads library.

ftp-site:  ftp.cs.fsu.edu
directory: /pub/PART/PTHREADS
files:     pthreads.tar.gz OR pthreads.zip OR pthreads.tar.Z,
mirror:    http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~mueller/ftp/pub/PART/ 

There is only one small problem, you have to modify libc.a to remove
"sigprom.o" and include in your build a modified "sigprocm.c" with the
function "int sigpending(sigset_t *set)" being removed from the file
as PTHREADS has this function. I don't know what the ramifications of
this are.  I only downloaded and started using the PTHREADS package
last week, so I'm still learning. This is the first POSIX Thread
package I have used.

If you find another POSIX compliant multitaksing kernel could you let
me know.

Regards,
Andrew Cottrell


On Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:42:45 -0500, "Warren Postma"
<wpostma AT NOSPAM DOT julian DOT uwo DOT ca> wrote:

>Somebody told me about using DJGPP to build a DOS based executable
>containing a 386-protected mode
>pre-emptive multitasking system based on a POSIX compliant kernel.  Can
>anyone point me at more information on this somewhere on the Web?
>
>
>Warren Postma
>
>