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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Request For Comments: KThread
From:       Michael Reiher <michael.reiher () gmx ! de>
Date:       1999-09-30 18:07:05
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Kurt Granroth wrote:
> 
> Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > Given the recent discussion about multi-threading the following might
> > be of interest:
> >
> > Request For Comments: KThread
> 
> Sounds interesting.  Were you planning on writing the thread stuff
> yourself (no no no) or have KThread be a wrapper class for an existing
> thread package (yes yes yes)?
> 
> When you're making your decision about which thread package to use,
> remember that posix threads just won't cut it.  Off the top of my
> head, I know that libc5 (read: all non-new distros) does *not* have
> pthreads.  I'm sure that quite a few more platforms are similar.
There is also Netscapes nspr lib, which implements threading on various
platforms. If there is no native threading support it emulates it, I
think.
But I cannot say what it's license is, right now.

Greets

Michael

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Michael Reiher  
     Student at Dresden University of Technology
          Department of Computer Science
               email: michael.reiher@gmx.de

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