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Recent changes to pthread pre/postcreate and init_main_thread
- From: Thomas Pfaff <tpfaff at gmx dot net>
- To: cygdev <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:36:04 +0100
- Subject: Recent changes to pthread pre/postcreate and init_main_thread
Chris,
while i can understand the reasons for your changes to the code i am not
happy whith these regarding the cancel event creation:
Doing it in postcreate after a thread is already created is nonsense
since it is a requisite and will lead to a segmentation fault if the
cancel event creation fails for some reason.
Apart from this i will not longer maintain the pthreads stuff.
My reasons are:
1. Time
I have not enough time left for reading the cygwin ml, developing
pthread improvements (like POSIX Message queues), doing bug fixes ...
My family and my job already consume too much.
2. Motivation
The latest cygwin release does all that i need after i backported my
last pthread bugfixes. And there has been no reason to boot windows on
my home box for the last 2 month and it will possibly get deleted in the
near future. Maybe i will keep it just for some games for my daughter.
This does not mean that i will entirely disappear, but everything that i
have to add and change will go through the cygwin-patches ml again.
Regards,
Thomas