RE: Current state of pthread implementation?

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Let's say this.  pthread is not officially supported yet.
As I said every thing compiled, but windows managers
crashed.  I would not classify XFree86 under Cygwin as pthread safe 
yet.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Eibach [mailto:a.eibach@gmx.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 1:47 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Current state of pthread implementation?
> 
> 
> 
> > Well yes, xfree binaries and libraries compile with 
> pthread. No problem.
> > Server works no problem. xterma nd all clients work - 
> problem.  BUT twm
> and
> > any other windows manager (such as vtwm and xfce) crashes 
> with pthread
> > support.
> 
> Hi Suhaib, I'm like forced to bother you once again, because 
> your last post
> has caused inconsistencies for some people. The one half 
> (including me)
> thinks that the _current_ X *BINARIES* are thread-safe thanks to your
> efforts, but the other half thinks that the current X *SOURCES* can be
> compiled as thread-safe, which would mean that the X binaries 
> aren't (yet).
> 
> Can you lift the fog, please?
> 
> Andreas
>