[haiku] Re: Any plans for pthread support?

  • From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:04:19 +0200

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

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