Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 08:18 EST From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thread issues Message-ID: <32999eda0.5633@databus.databus.com>
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The only reason I can conceive of to depart from standard APIs is if they are seriously broken, and I've seen no such claim. As long as the Posix thread API is available, having it built on some more comfortable underlying proprietary API is fine - Unixware does it that way. But not to have the Posix API available would condemn fbsd-smp to irrelevancy. Win32 threads could be offered the same way, but my main desire is for Posix. Of course, a great deal of the real work comes in making thread-safe versions of the C library, where possible. Debate over APIs just adds delay - which is a good reason to go with the standard. Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
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