Posix

[Bossom, John]

You are incorrect.
You do not have to allocate any memory on Win32 to make the calls.

The behaviour is exactly the same, from a user's point of view.
(Otherwise, it wouldn't be a very useful library if you had to do things
 differently from a coding point of view)


-----Original Message-----
From: Alexey Sushkov [ mailto:sushkov@dins.ru ]
Sent: June 1, 2001 9:44 AM
To: pthreads-win32@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Posix


Hello,

I am porting some app from Linux to Win32. The app uses functions:
pthread_mutex_init(&myId, NULL) pthread_attr_init(&myAttributes) and so on.
Before calling functions it does not allocate memory for myId and
myAttributes variables. As I understand this in correct behavior in Linux
environment because memory is allocated inside the functions but wrong in
Win32 because it is necessary allocate memory before calling the functions.
Am I right? If yes then my question is: why in Win32 you have not emulated
Linux's behavior?

Thanks,
Alexey Sushkov.