From: madarasz@erols.com (Alex P. Madarasz, Jr.) Subject: Re: posix threads 20 Oct 1998 12:19:15 -0700 Message-ID: <199810192023.QAA13080.cygnus.gnu-win32@smtp3.erols.com> References: <9810190357.AA15522@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu> Reply-To: Alex Madarasz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" Mumit Khan wrote on 18 Oct 98, 22:57 : > > 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). For those who can't find a reference to the thread classes amongst all the ORB stuff, read bullet 3 of : " The omniORB2 runtime is fully multithreaded. It uses native platform thread support encapsulated with a small class library, omnithread, to abstract away from differences in native thread APIs. " Also, for a possible alternative, see Steve Baker's ThreadBare : -- Alex P. Madarasz, Jr. -- madarasz@erols.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".