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Re: Did I hear you folks might be interested in POSIX threads?


Where do we stand with pthreads support?  I ran into
this on the debian hurd list, and thought we (cygwin)
might be interested in this as well.  Unfortunately, I'm
not sure where we are on licensing issues concerning
glibc, etc.


On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:00:31 -0500, Bill Abt wrote:

>
>I'm the maintainer of NGPT.  NGPT is a POSIX compliant (95%) replacement 
>library for LinuxThreads that is fully integrated with glibc and is also 
>binary compatible where possible (POSIX wins ;-).  I was wondering you folks 
>might be interested in a port to the Hurd?  Thanks.
>
>-- 
>Regards,
>     Bill Abt
>     Senior Software Engineer
>     Next Generation POSIX Threading for Linux
>     IBM Cambridge, MA, USA 02142
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>     babt@us.ibm.com or abt@us.ibm.com
>     http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/pthreads
>
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