On Jul 25, 2009, at 6:06 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Scott Rotondo <Scott.Rotondo at sun.com> wrote: > >> In an ideal world, Solaris would include a Pth library (in order to >> link >> and run programs that expect it) that is written to run efficiently >> on >> Solaris (by being a very thin wrapper around libpthread). > > And this will carry a high rist of breaking te programs that use > thus lib. > > Note that the programs that use Pth may not be MT safe and fail in > case of > real concurrency.
A replacement Pth would not necessarily have to inflict real concurrency on the applications that link with it. Whether or not it did that would be just one more piece of a complete Pth API spec. Anyway, whatever. I think we're "beating a dead horse" here. Gordon
