[haiku] Re: Any plans for pthread support?
- From: Roland Plüss <roland@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:36:00 +0200
Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Colin Günther <coling@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> As it seems Haikus conditional variable support cannot be used in this case.
>> At some point in the code a conversion of Haiku's "struct mutex" in a
>> "struct _pthread_mutex" is needed. And as far as I can tell this is
>> impossible. Maybe someone else knows better.
>>
>
> From this it sounds like you were trying to use the pthread condition
> variables, but Stephan was talking about the kernel condition
> variables, in other words: src/system/kernel/condition_variable.cpp.
>
> Since AFAIK you are in kernel-land this is probably what you would
> want to use. Of course I don't know if that is considered a "public
> kernel API" or what the general policy is on using parts of the kernel
> code like that in drivers.
>
>
Isn't the idea of BeOS to have only messaging services in the kernel and
nothing else? Why would an app then want to tap into kernel land?
--
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