From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9234 invoked by alias); 20 Jun 2008 01:29:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 9220 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Jun 2008 01:29:00 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from bender.grapevine.net.au (HELO bender.grapevine.net.au) (203.129.32.139) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:28:33 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bender.grapevine.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDF5DC030F; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:28:29 +1000 (EST) Received: from bender.grapevine.net.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bender.grapevine.net.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id x-Ny5SMgOBNS; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:28:29 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (ppp-187.40.129.203.grapevine.net.au [203.129.40.187]) by bender.grapevine.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 329B6C02D2; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:28:29 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <485B07BB.5060802@homemail.com.au> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:29:00 -0000 From: Ross Johnson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John E. Bossom" CC: pthreads-win32@sourceware.org Subject: Re: sigaction & pthread_sigmask References: <20080619055744.GA19869@wilbur.25thandClement.com> <35737E0536AA3D4BA26F10F103C8ABF809F131F2@nhc0ex13.goodrich.root.local> <20080619081432.qlk6ka1eogock8kg@webmail.pioneerwireless.ca> In-Reply-To: <20080619081432.qlk6ka1eogock8kg@webmail.pioneerwireless.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact pthreads-win32-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008/txt/msg00035.txt.bz2 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" : > >> 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. >>> >>> >>> >> > >