FreeLists / openbeosnetteam / [openbeosnetteam] Re: libbind.so status

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Waldemar Kornewald" <Waldemar.Kornewald@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Oh, BTW, you're right, we need pthread support for better POSIX 
> > compliance, even if I always thought being 100% POSIX 1003.1 
> > compliant 
> > for R1 is not our goal. (I never know pthread.h was made an 
> > official 
> > POSIX API!)
> Yes, and we should really support it to get other apps ported (MONO). 
> I think on the MONO mailinglist someone said that BeOS not having 
> full pthread support is one reason for not supporting it, but I do 
> not 
> remember when and where it was...

It's a pain for many applications. That's why you already find a start 
of our pthread code under:
current/src/kernel/libroot/posix/pthread

It's definitely going to be more before R1, but I cannot yet say if 
we'll get it complete - it might be enough for most applications, 
though.

Bye,
   Axel.