Re: [help-serveez] Thread safety

[stefan]

On 10 Dec 2002, Andreas Rottmann wrote:

> > > > 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?

Correct.  Also I would implement the necessary changes for windoze without
using a 3rd party library (as Raimi proposed).

Cheers,
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