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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To: Jacques Vidrine <nectar@NECTAR.COM>
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I'm sure about where to get the specs, but news:comp.programming.threads
is a good source of info.

You might also try...

Programming with POSIX Threads, by David R. Butenhof ISBN: 0201633922

Written by a DEC guy who was on the POSIX Threads committee.

Programming with Threads, by Steve Kleiman.

Written by SUN guys and includes advice on when to use AIO vs. threads.

Regards,


Mike
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Jacques Vidrine wrote:

> 
> Hmm, missed it by _that_ much.  I just finished a make world so I'll have
> a look-see again.
> 
> Anyone know where to get POSIX thread specs?  I'd like to get any problems
> with pthreads and/or Python identified, and I suppose it would help to
> know the expected behavior of pthreads.  I used to do conformance testing
> of OSI protocols (heh), so I'm used to wading through dense standards
> documents looking for conformance issues.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>
> 
> On 2 Dec 1997, Thomas Gellekum wrote:
> 
> > Jacques Vidrine <nectar@NECTAR.COM> writes:
> > 
> > > Python 1.5b1 doesn't work on -current dated 11/21.  :-(
> > 
> > Too old. The thread patches went in last week, aroung 11/25.
> > 
> > tg
> > 
> 

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