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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Mark Paulus" <commpg AT yahoo DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Did I hear you folks might be interested in POSIX threads?
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 09:58:40 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Paulus" <commpg AT yahoo DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 4:30 AM
Subject: Re: Did I hear you folks might be interested in POSIX threads?


> Where do we stand with pthreads support?  I ran into
> this on the debian hurd list, and thought we (cygwin)
> might be interested in this as well.  Unfortunately, I'm
> not sure where we are on licensing issues concerning
> glibc, etc.

glibc has not been ported to win32.

As far as pthreads go, we have a mostly complete implementation courtesy
yours truely (no comments about quality please) and there is also a
win32 native port http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/.

Rob


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