i tried at one time to use posix-threads(pthreads) on alpha. u can match up
some of the functionality, but in reality sun uses, well , sun-threads, and
their enhancements. there was a small talk on the diff's, i think one of
them was the ability to start/stop/pause any thread.
other difficulties would be finding a debugger that was also pthread
knowledgeable, and finding someone willing to forgo a cerebral hemorrhage,
for the greater cause!
Christopher Seawood wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Bernd Kreimeier wrote:
>
> >
> > The current FAQ quotes Karl Asha: native pthreads
> > with Linux are far from being available for JDK.
> >
> > Is this still true? The scripts contain lines like
>
> For the blackdown version it is. I think Sergey Nikitin's version might
> have native thread support. The blackdown version is ported using Sun's
> source and it still contains the script options for native threads
> although they have not been implemented yet.
>
> - cls
