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Re: posix threads
- To: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: posix threads
- From: "Alex P. Madarasz, Jr." <madarasz at erols dot com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 16:23:47 -0400
- Organization: Erols Internet
- References: Your message of "Sat, 17 Oct 1998 01:52:10 +0200." <3627DC2A.FFFB6EF8@uni-duesseldorf.de>
- Reply-to: Alex Madarasz <madarasz at erols dot com>
Mumit Khan wrote on 18 Oct 98, 22:57 :
>
> Stipe Tolj <tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de> writes:
> > cygwin32 does not support MIT's pthread package since it required a
> > thread-safe environment and Win95 defenetly is not. This is how many
> > people told me, while I was porting some relational database systems
> > using mutli-threading.
>
> You've been misinformed. Win95 (by which I assume you mean MS runtime) is
> certainly thread-capable; it's cygwin32 layer that's not thread-safe.
>
> For those looking at a cross-platform threading package might want to look
> at omniORB (http://www.orl.co.uk/omniORB/omniORB.html).
For those who can't find a reference to the thread classes amongst all the ORB
stuff, read bullet 3 of :
<http://www.orl.co.uk/omniORB/omniORBTechnical.html>
"
The omniORB2 runtime is fully multithreaded. It uses native platform thread
support encapsulated with a small class library, omnithread, to abstract away
from differences in native thread APIs.
"
Also, for a possible alternative, see Steve Baker's ThreadBare :
<http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1/tb/index.html>
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Alex P. Madarasz, Jr. -- madarasz@erols.com
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