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RE: sigaction & pthread_sigmask
Thank you, Ross. Sorry I wasn't paying closer attention.
The timer code is available here:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-linuxthreads-2.5.tar.bz2
The code I posted is from an older code set, but the current is
virtually the same, and is clearly marked with the "GNU Lesser General
Public License".
In any case, I believe that basic facilities like signals and timers
that are bound up in a threads implementation would be a good addition
to pthreads-win32.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org
> [mailto:pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Ross Johnson
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 9:28 PM
> To: John E. Bossom
> Cc: pthreads-win32@sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: sigaction & pthread_sigmask
>
> The timers code is from the GNU C library, which the comments
> in the included header file says is LGPL, so it would be ok to use.
>
> However, if the contributors to pthreads-win32 were to agree
> in future to change to a license other than the LGPL or GPL
> then this code would need to be completely removed or replaced.
>
> Regards.
> Ross
>
> John E. Bossom wrote:
> >
> > Your contribution has comments that it is licensed under the GNU
> > Public License. This, if included in pthreads-win32, would
> upsurp the
> > LGPL license designation of pthreads-win32 and thus prevent
> commercial
> > use of pthreads-win32 (something LGPL permits provided it
> is used as a
> > shared library - use of the static library renders the license GPL,
> > though) Are you the original author of this code? Would you
> consider
> > changing the license? Have you already published the package as GPL?
> >
> > Ross, comments?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > John.
> >
> > Quoting "Burkhardt, Glenn" <Glenn.Burkhardt@goodrich.com>:
> >
> >> I think so. Semaphores might seem out of scope, but they're an
> >> integral part of concurrent programming. Signals need to
> be thread
> >> smart, so they're naturally part of a thread implementation.
> >> So are timers - attached is a pthreads compatible version of Posix
> >> timers, but it's lacking the function of sending a signal
> to a thread
> >> when a timer has expired.
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org
> >>> [mailto:pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of William
> >>> Ahern
> >>> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 1:58 AM
> >>> To: pthreads-win32@sourceware.org
> >>> Subject: sigaction & pthread_sigmask
> >>>
> >>> Would it be worthwhile to submit a sigaction, sigwait,
> sigprocmask,
> >>> pthread_sigmask patch? Or are signals strictly outside
> the scope of
> >>> the project?
> >>>
> >>> I'm working on sigaction and sigwait
> implementations--using atomic
> >>> CAS operations for async-safety--intended for a portable kqueue
> >>> library. But the library depends on
> >>> pthreads-w32 anyhow, and it would be cleaner to simply
> patch upstream.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>