[15871] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: krb5 libraries and circular dependencies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Hutzelman)
Thu Jun 3 04:10:52 2010
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:10:42 -0400
From: Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu>
To: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@oracle.com>,
Ken Raeburn <raeburn@mit.edu>
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--On Monday, May 31, 2010 07:48:35 PM -0500 Nicolas Williams
<Nicolas.Williams@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:18:19PM -0400, Ken Raeburn wrote:
>> On May 31, 2010, at 11:51, Nicolas Williams wrote:
>> > Does any modern Unix or Unix-like OS supported by MIT use anything
>> > other than pthreads now?
>>
>> Unless you count Solaris threads or Mach threads, no, I don't think
>
> There's no reason to use Solaris threads instead of pthreads: under the
> hood they are the same thing.
To be extra-clear: Solaris threads and pthreads are different API's onto
the same underlying thread system. You can mix and match the API's with
impunity.
> I don't know about Mach (or did you mean MacOS?).
If you look closely and squint just right, MacOS _is_ Mach.
-- Jeff
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