Wyllys Ingersoll <Wyllys.Ingersoll at Sun.COM> wrote: > Wouldn't the logical replacement for Pth be libpthread or Solaris threads? > Why bother even attempting to write a new thread library when we have > viable alternatives? The goal should be to eliminate the need for Pth > in the programs that use it if possible.
Please read the other mails from this thread. The Pth library does not implement cuncurrency, so it cannot be replaced by libpthread without running the risk of causing problems in the software that was implemented to call Pth. J?rg -- EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js at cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily