From kde-core-devel  Sun Dec 05 19:15:38 1999
From: Mirko Sucker <mirko.sucker () unibw-hamburg ! de>
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 19:15:38 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: threads
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Stephan Kulow wrote:

> I only want a very thin layer on top of pthreads and make sure it will
> work
> with libpth when pthreads are not available. As Qt is not thread safe we
> can't
> use threads in full power anyway.

Hello,
may I mention the kthreads package somewhere on ftp.kde.org I announced some days
ago? It already encapsulates POSIX threads and mutexes. Would save some time to use
it.
The main goal should be to be able to thread-safely insert events in the event loop,
so the main thread (the first one started, using main) will handle the whole GUI.
I contacted Matthias E. about it, but somehow our correspondence sleeped away.
See upload.kde.org/kde/Incoming/kdethreads.tar.gz.
Greetings,
--Mirko (who finally managed to keep his machine up and working after some hardware
crashs).

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