From:	"Paul Derbyshire" <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject:	Re: Threading and asynchronous processes
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Organization:	The Chaos Zone
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Date:	Sun, 17 May 1998 22:34:34 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii wrote in message ...
>For example, one possible implementation is to use the DJGPP signals
>for switching threads.  In this case, issuing any real-mode call, like
>a DOS function (including the one required to run a child process)
>will effectively stop multi-threading, since signals in DJGPP are
>suspended until real-mode calls return.

What about the mechanism used by pdmlwp?

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