From: tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de (Stipe Tolj) Subject: Re: posix threads 21 Oct 1998 19:06:39 -0700 Message-ID: <362DA1B3.2583F597.cygnus.gnu-win32@uni-duesseldorf.de> References: <9810190357.AA15522@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mumit Khan 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. Sorry Mumit, that's what I wanted to point out. Regards, Stipe -- Stipe Tolj Cygwin32 Porting Project Department of Economical Computer Science University of Cologne, Germany http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~tolj - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".