Subject: Re: pthreads
To: Brett Lymn <blymn@baea.com.au>
From: Nick Hudson <nick@nthcliff.demon.co.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 11/04/1999 20:35:38
Brett Lymn wrote:
>
> According to Michael Graff:
> >
> >I'm just about ready to start hacking on the MIT pthreads though, with
> >the goal of bringing it (or a descendent of it) into the main tree.
> >Why? Programs are being written that would like to use pthreads. All
> >the other OSs out there have it. We don't. We lose, and will lose in
> >bindv9 as well, since it uses pthreads throughout.
>
> In that case, you may want to look at the pthreads subdirectory from
> MySQL for some hacks that may be relevant.
>
There is another version maintained at
http://www.humanfactor.com/pthreads/mit-pthreads.html
Nick