RE: sigaction & pthread_sigmask

["Burkhardt, Glenn" <Glenn.Burkhardt@goodrich.com>]

Thank you, Ross.  Sorry I wasn't paying closer attention.

The timer code is available here:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-linuxthreads-2.5.tar.bz2

The code I posted is from an older code set, but the current is
virtually the same, and is clearly marked with the "GNU Lesser General
Public License".

In any case, I believe that basic facilities like signals and timers
that are bound up in a threads implementation would be a good addition
to pthreads-win32.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org 
> [mailto:pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Ross Johnson
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 9:28 PM
> To: John E. Bossom
> Cc: pthreads-win32@sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: sigaction & pthread_sigmask
> 
> The timers code is from the GNU C library, which the comments 
> in the included header file says is LGPL, so it would be ok to use.
> 
> However, if the contributors to pthreads-win32 were to agree 
> in future to change to a license other than the LGPL or GPL 
> then this code would need to be completely removed or replaced.
> 
> Regards.
> Ross
> 
> John E. Bossom wrote:
> >
> > Your contribution has comments that it is licensed under the GNU 
> > Public License. This, if included in pthreads-win32, would 
> upsurp the 
> > LGPL license designation of pthreads-win32 and thus prevent 
> commercial 
> > use of pthreads-win32 (something LGPL permits provided it 
> is used as a 
> > shared library - use of the static library renders the license GPL, 
> > though) Are you the original author of this code? Would you 
> consider 
> > changing the license? Have you already published the package as GPL?
> >
> > Ross, comments?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > John.
> >
> > Quoting "Burkhardt, Glenn" <Glenn.Burkhardt@goodrich.com>:
> >
> >> I think so.  Semaphores might seem out of scope, but they're an 
> >> integral part of concurrent programming.  Signals need to 
> be thread 
> >> smart, so they're naturally part of a thread implementation.
> >> So are timers - attached is a pthreads compatible version of Posix 
> >> timers, but it's lacking the function of sending a signal 
> to a thread 
> >> when a timer has expired.
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org
> >>> [mailto:pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of William 
> >>> Ahern
> >>> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 1:58 AM
> >>> To: pthreads-win32@sourceware.org
> >>> Subject: sigaction & pthread_sigmask
> >>>
> >>> Would it be worthwhile to submit a sigaction, sigwait, 
> sigprocmask, 
> >>> pthread_sigmask patch? Or are signals strictly outside 
> the scope of 
> >>> the project?
> >>>
> >>> I'm working on sigaction and sigwait 
> implementations--using atomic 
> >>> CAS operations for async-safety--intended for a portable kqueue 
> >>> library. But the library depends on
> >>> pthreads-w32 anyhow, and it would be cleaner to simply 
> patch upstream.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> 
>