In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Barcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > FreeBSD violates POSIX in this respect. The 1003.1 standard > > (section 2.5) requires pthread_t to be an arithmetic type. > > It looks like this requirement was removed in POSIX.1-2001.
Interesting. I don't have that standard and wasn't aware of the change. Are you sure the requirement was removed? It was hidden away in an obscure place in the 1996 edition of the standard. There's a table of "Primitive System Data Types" containing the usual suspects (dev_t, gid_t, uid_t, ...) and including the thread types I mentioned. Then there's a sentence in the nearby text that says, "All of the types listed in Table 2-1 shall be arithmetic types ..." John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
