From: Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Pthreads for gnu-win32?
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 09:21:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199710171611.CAA32241@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9710161332.ZM9552@xvn.ds.boeing.com>
You write:
> Anyone know of a port of pthreads for gnu-win32 or if gnu-win32
>supports posix threads?
As far as I know, gnu-win32 does not support threads; I'm pretty sure that
the C library it uses, `newlib', is not thread-safe.
It is a pity that Cygnus didn't use the GNU C library, which supports
threads, and (from what I have heard) is generally better than newlib.
I believe the main motivation for using newlib was copyright issues.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-10-17 9:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-16 13:32 Rick Blair
1997-10-17 9:21 ` Fergus Henderson [this message]
1997-10-17 17:56 ` Alex
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