From: "Paul Derbyshire" <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Threading and asynchronous processes
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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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