Re: threads ?

[Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.EDU>]

"Robert A. Mackie" <robert_mackie@mail.com> writes:
> 
> Does the cygwin.dll support anything like posix threads ?  I looked
> through the headers and found the process spawning stuff.  I can use
> that if I need to, but was hoping that I'm just being obtuse somehow in
> not finding the thread create, and the rest.

Cygwin is not thread-safe, so it's a non-issue (short answer is "no" ;-)

However, the development snapshots have *experimental* support for thread
safety, but you need to build with --enable-threads; once you have that 
you see if pthreads-win32 (http://sourceware.cygnus.com/pthreads/) will
work.

> PS: What is cygwin1.dll vs cygwin.dll ?

cygwin1.dll is the dll version 1, distributed with Cygwin b20.1. I don't
remember if older versions (eg., b19) was called just cygwin.dll or not.

Mumit


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