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To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: LWP, anyone? 
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From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
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> > I've been using  the MIT pthreads package on linux and am
> > quite impressed.
> > 
> > This seems to be the direction to go in...
> > 
> 
> This is not a pthreads competitor.
> 
> This is an API compatability issue for many, many SunOS 4.x (x>1)
> applications.
> 
> 
Which applications use the sun LWP package?

I learned it and found it useless since no thread can block in
a system call...


marty
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Member of the League for Programming Freedom