Pthreads for gnu-win32?

Pthreads for gnu-win32?

[Rick Blair]

Hi all,
	Anyone know of a port of pthreads for gnu-win32 or if gnu-win32
supports posix threads?

Thanks in advance

Rick Blair

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Re: Pthreads for gnu-win32?

[Fergus Henderson]

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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Re: Pthreads for gnu-win32?

[Alex]

On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Rick Blair wrote:

> Hi all,
> 	Anyone know of a port of pthreads for gnu-win32 or if gnu-win32
> supports posix threads?

AFAIK no and no and no I don't know of anyone working on such a thing.
Sorry.
 
- alex

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