On Thu, Oct 24, 2002, Matthew Mondor wrote:

> [...exporting pth_mctx functionality...]
>
> > Yes, the same idea is also on my TODO list. Unfortunately it is perhaps
> > not as easy as it looks, because some of the pth_mctx_*() stuff is just
> > macro based and hence exporting it means moving it physically to pth.h
> > -- perhaps with other side-effects. I'll look into this, perhaps we
> > could wrap the pth_mctx_*() functionality with extra C function for
> > easier exporting.
>
> Yes, that is also why I suggest to perhaps provide an SVR4/SUS like
> interface, which could consist of C functions... and then exported and
> documented. The API is already well known so it could be a plus...
> [...]

I've now finished this TODO list point, too. Details you can find
under http://cvs.ossp.org/chngview?cn=2718. For trying it out fetch
the snapshot ftp://ftp.ossp.org/pkg/lib/pth/pth-SNAP-20021103.tar.gz
or higher. An example you can find in test_uctx.c. Documentation is in
pth.pod.
                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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