Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1999/12/06/19:43:53
John Fortin wrote:
>
> Since I've added some of the functionality for pthreads, please keep me
> in the loop.
> I've not been working on it much due to the xfree86 port, but if this is
> starting to
> take off, I can make time.
>
> John
>
> Mumit Khan wrote:
> >
> > Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com> writes:
> > >
> > > Since this changes the "stableness" of the snapshots, IMHO a copy of the
> > > snapshots prior to these changes should be saved similar in nature to the Jan
> > > 15th snapshot. BTW, I'm glad to see that pthreads will finally get tested.
> > >
> >
> > I know that enabling threads breaks some of my code (** see below), so I
> > agree with Earnie that we should have stable-before-the-last-major-change
> > one. Perhaps 1999-12-04?
> >
> > ** It has been a while since I tried running a thread-enabled version,
> > so chances are that a lot of the "usual" thread related problems have
> > been solved. I was getting random hangs here and there among other
> > problems. This code needs platforms that support DCE or POSIX (pthreads
> > now works under Mingw), and currently runs under many different OSs;
> > however, that doesn't mean that there aren't bugs in it.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mumit
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