From: khan@xraylith.wisc.edu (Mumit Khan) Subject: Re: posix threads 19 Oct 1998 09:36:08 -0700 Message-ID: <9810190357.AA15522.cygnus.gnu-win32@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu> References: <3627DC2A.FFFB6EF8@uni-duesseldorf.de> To: Stipe Tolj Cc: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" Stipe Tolj 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 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".