Subject: Re: Pthreads...
To: Christophe Kalt <kalt@taranis.org>
From: Nick Hudson <skrll@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/14/2002 11:01:10
On Saturday 13 April 2002 5:42 pm, Christophe Kalt wrote:
> On Apr 10, B. James Phillippe wrote:
> | To John: FWIW, I've had the best success with threads on NetBSD using GNU
> | pth (I'm using 1.4.0 from pkgsrc).  As another poster pointed out, you'll
> | want to compile with -D_POSIX_THREAD_SYSCALL_SOFT=1 to enable non-blocking
> | system call wrappers.
> 
> Hm, why not hard?

Because there were reported SEGVs with hard. I'm working towards importing a 
--enable-syscall-hard version of pth that we can migrate towards for versions 
of NetBSD that don't have native pthreads.

Nick