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Re: pthreads on Win2k
- To: pthreads-win32 at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: pthreads on Win2k
- From: Scott McCaskill <scott at magruder dot org>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:54:27 -0600 (CST)
On the face of it, this seems like a bad idea--why would you want to do
such a thing? This isn't derision, I'm just curious.
On the original subject, I've also been using pthreads on win2k for ~8
months now and haven't had any problems. I've only used it on single
processor machines.
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Stephen R. Johns wrote:
> Probably not related, but just in case...
>
> I've been trying to port a linux program to pthreadw32, and found
> a mutex issue/difference.
>
> Linux allows threads other than the locking thread to unlock a mutex,
> but pthreads does not. So if you are trying to do that, your
> unlocks never work.
>