>>> And, it would add 3.5 million lines of code to APR. >> >> Nah. It would add the lines to add thread cancellation. The >> 3.5 million LOC is the _entire_ dce rpc codebase. Only part >> of that is the dce threads library. And, I believe there are >> some old dce/rpc team members in our midst who could know how >> this all fit together. I could be wrong though. > > [warning: tangent -- i changed the subject appropriately] > > I must admit that it sounds tantalizing, but I have a comment and a > question: > > - It appears that the Free DCE package quoted above is under the GPL > and is therefore incompatible with the Apache License.
Yes. However, I wasn't suggesting using or copying code from the free dce package. You can merely examine it and decide whether implementing thread cancellation in such a way is something we want in APR. Then, you write your own implementation. Furthermore, I would like to compare the Free DCE threads implementation with the DCE/RPC threads implementation. Then pick the best design decisions from both. > - What is meant by "*emulated* on top of POSIX threads"? What are the > tradeoffs, if any, compared to a implementation that is native to > the OS? Sander
