From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: pthreads on Cygwin Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:01:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010122220032.A14127@redhat.com> References: <3A6CBEAA.4000002@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-01/msg01084.html On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 06:13:46PM -0500, Dave Brolley wrote: >Hi, > >According to the online documentation, basic pthread support is >available on Cygwin: > http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/cygwin-api/std-posix.html#AEN85 > >I've found and #included in /usr/include/pthread.h, however, >, found in /usr/include/sys/features.h, only turns on >_POSIX_THREADS if >a macro named __rtems__ is defined. Similarly for the thread support in >. > >Is this a bug in the headers or is thread support really not there for >vanilla Cygwin? I'm using version 1.1.7 on Windows 95. (Actually, it's a >snapshot from Jan 10 -- I as trying to avoid the "cygwin hangs after >'sed' in 'libtool' during builds problem). I was told by an insider that > and were only recently added. >From the ChangeLog, pthread.h has been around for more than a year. sys/features.h was introduced by Joel Sherrill on 2000-12-11, apparently to handle rtems. Apparently he didn't get the cygwin part right. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple