Threads in Octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 26-Mar-2001, Przemek Klosowski <address@hidden> wrote:

| The same code implemented as Octave extension (Octave 2.1.33) runs,
| but the main process doesn't seem to return the correct thread ID from
| pthread_self(). Furthermore, we seem to have problems with thread
| synchronization (cut out from the above source), which we suspect are
| caused by confusion within the thread system.

I'm not sure why your simple example is failing.  It seems to work for
me on a Debian system.  However, if your more complicated example
calls back to Octave, I wouldn't expect it to work, since the Octave
interpreter and libraries were definitely not designed to be thread
safe.

jwe



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