On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 06:49:16PM +0000, Bob Ham wrote: > > Obviously, the main concerns are with threads and plugins. I'm also not > > sure how many threads are really practical for a program. > > The number of threads doesn't matter, but the thread interface you use. > POSIX threads is of course the best choice for you. Unfortunately, they are > not supported on the Hurd (yet). We have cthreas, but that's a bit archaic, > and you might or not might want to support this. (Few do). > > Beside that, if you stick with POSIX and GNU extensions in glibc, you are > fine for the Hurd.
I've seen a couple of names for thread interfaces and I'm not sure what's what now; from what I can tell, the pthread thing in glibc is GNU's POSIX thread implementation but I've also seen "LinuxThreads" bandied about. Is that another term for glibc's pthreads or a seperate library or something to do with the kernel, or is it d) something else? Bob -- Bob Ham: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pkl.net/~node/ IRC: 'node' on irc.openprojects.net: #slashdot ICQ: 4396425 'node' "The GNU philosophy is about freedom. To be free one must have personal power. Personal power is an individual thing, difficult to obtain and quick to perish." --Krisno Pryosusilo
