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Re: posix threads
- To: Stipe Tolj <tolj at uni-duesseldorf dot de>
- Subject: Re: posix threads
- From: Mumit Khan <khan at xraylith dot wisc dot edu>
- Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 22:57:31 -0500
- Cc: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
Stipe Tolj <tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de> writes:
> cygwin32 does not support MIT's pthread package since it required a
> thread-safe environment and Win95 defenetly is not. This is how many people
> told me, while I was porting some relational database systems using
> mutli-threading.
You've been misinformed. Win95 (by which I assume you mean MS runtime) is
certainly thread-capable; it's cygwin32 layer that's not thread-safe.
For those looking at a cross-platform threading package might want to look
at omniORB (http://www.orl.co.uk/omniORB/omniORB.html).
Regards,
Mumit
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