Hi, On 2009-09-23 at 13:36:57 [+0200], Roland Plüss <roland@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I didn't mean "emulation" in a negative way. With "emulating" I simply > meant to provide a functionality which is not exposed directly using > other constructs. Nothing wrong with that and the Posix compat layer does > work ( at last my threading test cases in the engine pass so I assume so > ). I can implementing this all using sems later on but right now it is > easier for me to simply compile against pthreads support like I do on > other Unix systems. Using the pthread API on Haiku is perfectly fine, that's what it is there for. :-) It is not supposed to be a second-class citizen or anything like that and there are not supposed to be any drawbacks in using the pthread API on Haiku. Best regards, -Stephan