RE: Pthread Support For Interix

[Dan Kegel]

I just compiled and ran a pthreads program on Cygwin,
so perhaps they have progressed since last time you checked.

Which documented security holes are you referring to?

Interix costs money, so it's a bit moot; I use Cygwin because
I don't have to fill out a purchase order and have my boss
approve it.  I don't have a huge business reason to use it;
I just prefer bash sometimes.  Gets me that nice tab
completion feature missing in win2k.
- Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Willoughby
To: Dan Kegel
Cc: 'Santosh Kadam '; 'address@hidden '
Sent: 7/23/2002 1:29 PM
Subject: RE: Pthread Support For Interix

Neither interix or cygwin support pthreads to my knowledge.  I
personally
would use interix in preference to cygwin as it has fewer documented
security holes...

There used to be a project which was implementing pthreads as a layer on
top of NT threads, but I can't remember where it was.  Checking google
says:

http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/

Note that it isn't perfect, but might be good enough for your
purposes...

Regards,

Philip Willoughby

Systems Programmer, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London,
UK
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