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From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To: Matthias Trevarthan <trevarthan@wingnet.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Multithreading C/C++ code
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On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Matthias Trevarthan wrote:

> Howdy!
>
> Just curious, but what is the standard way to implement cross-platform
> multi-threading? Java has native threads. Windows has native threads. What do
> architectures like FreeBSD and other Unix-like systems use? And what is the
> standard for cross-platform implementation?

The standard is pthreads, which is the short name for POSIX Threads.
man pthread for details. A very good book on the subject is
Butenhof's "Programming with POSIX Threads"


			Fer

>
> This is probably the wrong list for this sort of thing, but it IS a question,
> and it DOES relate to FreeBSD, and I don't want to set up another maildrop
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> :)
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> Thanks.
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> Matthias
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