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Re: An idea for pthreads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Brownell)
Fri Oct 27 07:59:46 1995
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 04:21:55 -0700
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>, Antony Courtney <antony@apocalypse.org>
From: David Brownell <brownell@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU, pthreads@MIT.EDU
At 06:16 AM 26-10-95 -0400, Ken Raeburn wrote:
> understand things, the big vendors (SGI, Sun) are damn near having native
> pthreads support anyway.
>
>Some already have it, if you don't mind packages based on older drafts
>of the POSIX standard, with different interfaces.
As one data point, and speaking as someone who's already distributed code
using POSIX.1c: Solaris 2.5 supports the standard draft, DEC OSF/1 3.0 is
seriously noncompliant (draft 4, but uses the _POSIX_THREADS define which
indicates "draft 10" == standard compliance), and I can't speak for SGI.
MIT pthreads will continue being valuable for popular "freeware" platforms
like Linux, and for older OS releases without native threads.
- Dave
