On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:45:01PM -0600, kyle.unice@L-3com.com wrote:
> After looking around for some time, it is not clear what is the
> library/package of choice for multithreading applications on NetBSD.
> There is an unproven-pthreads library and a GNU pth library in the
> packages collection.  pthreads seems to be what most code uses, yet
> the NetBSD library is marked as "unproven" ... ( making me alittle
> nervous ).  What do most programmers use to multithread an application
> on NetBSD?

I use the pth-1.4.1nb2 package and compile with
-D_POSIX_THREAD_SYSCALL_SOFT=1 which #define translates blocking system
calls (such as read()) into thread-aware pth_*() calls.  This works
reasonably well.

jf
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