Re: DCEthreads - cancellation / mutexes is possible

2001-07-18 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: therefore, i conclude that the dce/rpc codebase has successfully implemented thread cancellation in their POSIX/Draft4 thread library. yes cancellation is in the spec. i've never denied that. the problem is libraries and code over

Re: DCEthreads - cancellation / mutexes is possible

2001-07-18 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: And, from what I can tell, Dean Gaudet has mentioned this morning that he is willing to veto async notification. Dean, would that include cancellation of threads? I have a suspicion it might. Dean has commit access on httpd as well, so if you

Re: DCEthreads - cancellation / mutexes is possible

2001-07-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 06:49:20AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, in amongst all this about threads etc. i just wanted to let you know that i happened across the context_app example in the dce 1.22 codebase. it is an example client and server that maintains a context - a

Re: DCEthreads - cancellation / mutexes is possible

2001-07-17 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 03:26:29PM +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: therefore, i conclude that the dce/rpc codebase has successfully implemented thread cancellation in their POSIX/Draft4 thread library. additionally, the context app, being threaded, has to have locking on the