From: tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de (Stipe Tolj) Subject: Re: multithread programming 1 Feb 1999 13:23:14 -0800 Message-ID: <36B5871E.1D1E3C38.cygnus.gnu-win32@uni-duesseldorf.de> References: <36B2ED48.3A763ADF@i-france.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Vasiliy Cc: Alex , gnu-win32 mailing list > > > > unfortunatly Cygwin b19 (and b20) are _not_ multithread safe. Therefore the > > posix thread pthread package from MIT won't work. > > Does it mean that it is impossible to port multithreaded application from Unix > to Win32 ??? of course it _is_ possible if you consider to write pthread wrappers that take out the multithreading ability of the application. As you may know, Win9x shouldn't be considererd thread-safe at all, therefore how could Cygwin fix that if it is a sub-system of the os. I just wanted to say, that you can't compare Linux or Solaris (or what real UNIX ever) to Cygwin for multithreading abilities. I tried to port the MySQL database engine which uses the MIT's pthreads. And I got stuck into deep trouble with the need of that pthread functions. Maybe an upcoming release of Cygwin will be supporting the pthread packages in some way. Regards, Stipe -- Stipe Tolj Cygwin Porting Project -- "We build UNIX on top of Windows" http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/ Department of Economical Computer Science University of Cologne, Germany - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".