Threads on Solaris are a big issue for Sun, so I will start tackling this 
problem today.  Thanks for telling me all the issues Francois.  I have a 
hack-ish version implemented, and now I can create a real solution to the 
problem.

Gregg Mattinson
Co-op Developer
Sun Microsystems of Canada

>From: Francois Gouget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>CC: Gregg Mattinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Threading on Solaris
>Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 00:35:09 -0700
>
>Hi,
>
>
>Some time ago I did some tests of Wine on Solaris x86 and found that 
>there is a problem with the way we handle threads due to the differences 
>between the Linux and Solaris threading models. These differences are 
>also relevant for Solaris Sparc and probably many other Unices.
>
>Unfortunately I don't have time to work on it anymore so I created a bug 
>report in Bugzilla where I tried to dump the relevant information, 
>including a patch to illustrate the issues and the start of a fix. I 
>hope it will be useful to someone... maybe Gregg who has been doing a 
>lot of Solaris work recently.
>
>http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904
>
>
>-- 
>Francois Gouget
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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