multithread-safe applications in cygwin32

Christopher G. Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Tue Jul 28 06:51:00 GMT 1998


In article <000001bdb977$a752a520$732ddd80.cygnus.gnu-win32@cpc45115.us.dg.com>,
Peter Mularski <pmularski@clariion.com> wrote:
>I have just been banging my head against a wall trying to write a
>multithreaded application for cygwin32. Is this possible, and if so, how? I
>notice that none of the reentrant standard library calls are supported.
>Also, the MS _beginthread and _endthread calls, which are also supposed to
>provide a reentrant interface are not supported. How is it possible to do a
>multithreaded program with cygwin? ming is not an option, since I need the
>UNIX emulation layer. Any ideas?

Cygwin32 is not yet thread-safe.  It also doesn't support the MS _beginthread
and _endthread calls.

We are planning on releasing a thread-safe version of Cygwin at some point
in the future, but for now, I am afraid that you're out of luck.
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