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Re: posix threads


> Stipe Tolj <tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de> writes:
> > cygwin32 does not support MIT's pthread package since it required a
> > thread-safe environment and Win95 defenetly is not. This is how many people
> > told me, while I was porting some relational database systems using
> > mutli-threading.
>
> You've been misinformed. Win95 (by which I assume you mean MS runtime) is
> certainly thread-capable; it's cygwin32 layer that's not thread-safe.

Sorry Mumit, that's what I wanted to point out.

Regards,
Stipe

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Stipe Tolj <tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de>
Cygwin32 Porting Project
Department of Economical Computer Science
University of Cologne, Germany
http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~tolj




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