On 5/7/06, Nick Kew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Now, what about a platform that HAS_PTHREAD_KILL, but which uses some other form of threading in its APR (isn't that at least an option on some FreeBSD versions?) Wouldn't this break horribly when it pthread_kills a non-pthread? Couldn't it even happen on Linux, in principle at least?
On FreeBSD you basically need to pick one threading library, if you're linked against more than one of them bad things happen, since they all implement the same pthread functions. On Solaris, which does have multiple threading implementations with different APIs, I don't think it would matter, since pthreads is implemented on top of the lower level solaris threads. I suspect that's the common case, if there is another threading library it's lower level and pthreads is generally implemented on top of it. The only other case I can think of is if you're using a user level threading library but the system has its own pthreads library. -garrett
