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Re: pthreads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Provenzano)
Wed Nov 6 04:56:27 1996
Reply-To: proven@cygnus.com
To: David Halls <David.Halls@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: pthreads@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Nov 1996 17:15:56 GMT."
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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 04:27:31 -0500
From: Christopher Provenzano <proven@proven.org>
> > > Is the thread package still under development?
>
> > Yes, but it's been rather slow. Chris has been making checkins, but I
> > don't know when he plans to do the next release.
>
> I just found what looks like a new release on the site...
>
> ftp://sipb.mit.edu/pub/pthreads/pthreads-1_60_beta5_9.tar.gz
That's not official yet :). I need to do some more release engineering.
I'm shooting for finishing it this weekend and releasing on November 11.
Note: This release will only contain bug fixes. I am looking at doing
a 1_70_alpha release shortly afterwards which will contain pthread_cancel()
along with priority mutexes. I've got a bunch of stuff I want to add to
1_70 over the next few months but I don't want to sit on the cancel code
for too long. The plan is to do semi frequent alpha releases so people can
try new features and at the same time maintain 1_60 with only bug fixes so
those that need a STABLE release don't get burned.
CAP
