Peter wrote:

>
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:45:20PM +0300, Peter wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to know what the status of pthreads is, in 2.+ . I have
>>> ported a small program to 1.6.1 and it works but some aspects have
>>> strange reactions if I use anything but the default pthreads attributes
>>> for new tasks. Is threre a substitute pthreads library recommended for
>>> use with netbsd ?
>>
>>
>> NetBSD 1.6.1 does not have a system thread library.  Did you mean "I
>> have ported a small program to 2.0", or did you mean "I have ported a
>> small program to NetBSD 1.6, using third-party thread library ____"?
>
>
> In case the questions about 1.6.1 are ignored, note that the original 
> question was about pthread support in 2.0 ;-) (present or future). And 
> by pthreads I mean Posix compatible threads, not necessarily the 
> pthreads package from R. S. Engerlschall.


I have written some pretty simple pthreads applications with the 2.0 
'native pthreads' (or in any case, I did not install any additional
packages on my 2.0 NetBSD setup...). Since they were pretty simple, I 
did not attempt any attribute specs, etc.

John Clark