Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 18:39:15 -0400 To: Mumit Khan Cc: "Robert A. Mackie" , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: threads ? Message-ID: <19990901183915.B4944@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: Mumit Khan , "Robert A. Mackie" , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <37CD4648.96A9642F@mail.com> <199909011653.LAA17914@pluto.xraylith.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <199909011653.LAA17914@pluto.xraylith.wisc.edu>; from Mumit Khan on Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 11:53:13AM -0500 On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 11:53:13AM -0500, Mumit Khan wrote: >"Robert A. Mackie" writes: >> >> Does the cygwin.dll support anything like posix threads ? I looked >> through the headers and found the process spawning stuff. I can use >> that if I need to, but was hoping that I'm just being obtuse somehow in >> not finding the thread create, and the rest. > >Cygwin is not thread-safe, so it's a non-issue (short answer is "no" ;-) > >However, the development snapshots have *experimental* support for thread >safety, but you need to build with --enable-threads; once you have that >you see if pthreads-win32 (http://sourceware.cygnus.com/pthreads/) will >work. Actually, there some minimal pthread functionality will show up if you 'configure --enable-threadsafe'. -Chris Faylor -Win32 Manager -Cygnus Solutions -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com