Re: [help-serveez] Thread safety

[Andreas Rottmann]

stefan <address@hidden> writes:

> On 10 Dec 2002, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
> 
> > [threads]
> > >
> > > As I already stated:  If ever -> then a wrapper API, because this what
> > > Serveez is mostly about: system independence.
> > >
> > Hmm, one could argue POSIX is also about system independence ;-)
> 
> But POSIX isn't implemented for all of them...  Of course for the most
> common ones it actually is.
> 
Are there any real systems _with_ _thread_ _support_ that don't have a
pthread implementation?

But I guess your point is that with a wrapper, it would be possible to
use *exactly* the same code, even if there are no pthreads (the mutex
operations, then would become simply null code). ACK?

Regards, Andy
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