From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4306 invoked by alias); 3 Nov 2004 15:38:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact pthreads-win32-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: pthreads-win32-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4299 invoked from network); 3 Nov 2004 15:38:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ps11.kent.dot.net.au) (202.147.78.203) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 3 Nov 2004 15:38:37 -0000 Received: from ip-86-129.dot.net.au ([202.147.86.129] helo=ise.canberra.edu.au) by ps11.kent.dot.net.au with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #4) id 1CPNDY-0008EF-00 for pthreads-win32@sources.redhat.com; Thu, 04 Nov 2004 02:38:36 +1100 Message-ID: <4188FB7B.2010307@ise.canberra.edu.au> Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:38:00 -0000 From: Ross Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pthreads-win32 Subject: Re: snap-2004-11-03 breakage References: <0b0b01c4c1a7$8a2fe3b0$0600000a@broadpark.no> <4188EB13.8000100@ise.canberra.edu.au> <0c1d01c4c1b6$210857a0$0600000a@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <0c1d01c4c1b6$210857a0$0600000a@broadpark.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg00132.txt.bz2 Gisle Vanem wrote: > "Ross Johnson" wrote: > >> I definitely don't want to break applications unnecessarily and >> particularly applications that have been ported to several different >> POSIX systems, but on the other hand POSIX thread IDs are not >> required to be scalar. See the rationale from the definition of >> pthread_equal() in the Single Unix Specification version 3, which says: > > > Great, but when was pthread_equal() introduced? I'd like to support > old versions of pthread-win32 too. > pthread_equal() has been in pthreads-win32 since 1998. pthread_kill() with the sigzero functionality is a lot newer - introduced in snapshot-2003-08-15. > BTW. I cannot find a compile-time VERSION define to check against. > If there where, I could #ifdef around this problem. I should have done that for this snapshot. Don't be surprised to see a new snapshot in a day or two just to include that. > > BTW2. I'm, getting 2 copies of every reply from you. I would prefer > replies > to go to the list only. Could you please make the mailing-list program > add a "Reply-to" header? > I have no control over the mailing list, but I can save you from getting two copies from me. > --gv >