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Re: Port of mit-pthreads to Cygwin32

To: tolj at uni-duesseldorf dot de
Subject: Re: Port of mit-pthreads to Cygwin32
From: Geoffrey Noer <noer at cygnus dot com>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 15:50:41 -0800
Cc: Tim Taylor <ttaylor at mitre dot org>, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
References: <3.0.5.32.19981203140309.00adab80@linus.mitre.org> <3667DA0F.3E74@uni-duesseldorf.de>

Stipe Tolj wrote:
[...]
> Now about the mysql port itself. As you said it uses the mit-pthread
> package which is OS specific and is defenetly NOT supported for cygwin,
> since cygwin is NOT thread safe. So propably you can forget about
> porting the mit-pthread package to cygin at all.

BTW, we're nearly there with respect to Cygwin being thread-safe.
Cygwin should support pthreads soon but I don't have a time frame
yet...

-- 
Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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