From: acottrel AT magna DOT com DOT au (Andrew Cottrell)
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Subject: Re: Threads and DJGPP
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 10:59:25 GMT
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Pthreads is a round robin threading library. Try LWMP or one of it's
derivaties for a pre-emptive threading library, this is available in
the V2TK directory. If you are using Allegro then check out the
following URL for the LWMP add on for Allegro.
http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/pines/7817

Andrew
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998 00:42:35 GMT, "Dennis Forbes"
<dennis_forbes AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:

>Hello and good day.
>
>Recently I've acquired and setup DJGPP for use creating some amateur control
>systems to interface with a micrcontroller.  I'm very impressed by the
>product overall, but one limitation is the lack of threads.  Finally I found
>the product PThreads and compiled and installed it.
>
>Where can I find documentation on this?  It comes with nothing.  My
>threading tests with it are not working:  I create two threads and then join
>my main thread to one of them...it then runs the joined thread until it
>terminates, then it runs the second thread.  Is this package not
>pre-emptive?
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thank-you
>Dennis_Forbes AT hotmail DOT com
>