Subject: Re: Multithreading package for NetBSD
To: None <kyle.unice@L-3com.com>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/10/2002 12:41:07
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:45:01PM -0600, kyle.unice@L-3com.com wrote:
> After looking around for some time, it is not clear what is the
> library/package of choice for multithreading applications on NetBSD.  There
> is an unproven-pthreads library and a GNU pth library in the packages
> collection.  pthreads seems to be what most code uses, yet the NetBSD
> library is marked as "unproven" ... ( making me alittle nervous ).  What do
> most programmers use to multithread an application on NetBSD?

I think 'unproven' was based on the original MIT pthreads author's userid
being 'proven', so Michael's not-done-by-proven version was un-proven.

A nice play on words I thought. :-)

-Andrew