Open Source
POSIX Threads for Win32



Contributors

(in approximate order of appearance)

[See also the ChangeLog file where individuals are

attributed in log entries. Likewise in the FAQ file.]


Ben Elliston bje at cygnus dot com

Initiated the project;

setup the project infrastructure (CVS, web page, etc.);

early prototype routines.

Ross Johnson Ross dot Johnson at dot homemail dot com dot au

early prototype routines;

ongoing project coordination/maintenance;

implementation of spin locks and barriers;

various enhancements;

bug fixes;

documentation;

testsuite.

Robert Colquhoun rjc at trump dot net dot au

Early bug fixes.

John E. Bossom John dot Bossom at cognos dot com

Contributed substantial original working implementation;

bug fixes;

ongoing guidance and standards interpretation.

Anders Norlander anorland at hem2 dot passagen dot se

Early enhancements and runtime checking for supported

Win32 routines.

Tor Lillqvist tml at iki dot fi

General enhancements;

early bug fixes to condition variables.

Scott Lightner scott at curriculum dot com

Bug fix.

Kevin Ruland Kevin dot Ruland at anheuser-busch dot com

Various bug fixes.

Mike Russo miker at eai dot com

Bug fix.

Mark E. Armstrong avail at pacbell dot net

Bug fixes.

Lorin Hochstein lmh at xiphos dot ca

general bug fixes; bug fixes to condition variables.

Peter Slacik Peter dot Slacik at tatramed dot sk

Bug fixes.

Mumit Khan khan at xraylith dot wisc dot edu

Fixes to work with Mingw32.

Milan Gardian mg at tatramed dot sk

Bug fixes and reports/analyses of obscure problems.

Aurelio Medina aureliom at crt dot com

First implementation of read-write locks.

Graham Dumpleton Graham dot Dumpleton at ra dot pad dot otc dot telstra dot com dot au

Bug fix in condition variables.

Tristan Savatier tristan at mpegtv dot com

WinCE port.

Erik Hensema erik at hensema dot xs4all dot nl

Bug fixes.

Rich Peters rpeters at micro-magic dot com

Todd Owen towen at lucidcalm dot dropbear dot id dot au

Bug fixes to dll loading.

Jason Nye jnye at nbnet dot nb dot ca

Implementation of async cancelation.

Fred Forester fforest at eticomm dot net

Kevin D. Clark kclark at cabletron dot com

David Baggett dmb at itasoftware dot com

Bug fixes.

Paul Redondo paul at matchvision dot com

Scott McCaskill scott at 3dfx dot com

Bug fixes.

Jef Gearhart jgearhart at tpssys dot com

Bug fix.

Arthur Kantor akantor at bexusa dot com

Mutex enhancements.

Steven Reddie smr at essemer dot com dot au

Bug fix.

Alexander Terekhov TEREKHOV at de dot ibm dot com

Re-implemented and improved read-write locks;

(with Louis Thomas) re-implemented and improved

condition variables;

enhancements to semaphores;

enhancements to mutexes;

new mutex implementation in 'futex' style;

suggested a robust implementation of pthread_once

similar to that implemented by V.Kliathcko;

system clock change handling re CV timeouts;

bug fixes.

Thomas Pfaff tpfaff at gmx dot net

Changes to make C version usable with C++ applications;

re-implemented mutex routines to avoid Win32 mutexes

and TryEnterCriticalSection;

procedure to fix Mingw32 thread-safety issues.

Franco Bez franco dot bez at gmx dot de

procedure to fix Mingw32 thread-safety issues.

Louis Thomas lthomas at arbitrade dot com

(with Alexander Terekhov) re-implemented and improved

condition variables.

David Korn dgk at research dot att dot com

Ported to UWIN.

Phil Frisbie, Jr. phil at hawksoft dot com

Bug fix.

Ralf Brese Ralf dot Brese at pdb4 dot siemens dot de

Bug fix.

prionx at juno dot com prionx at juno dot com

Bug fixes.

Max Woodbury mtew at cds dot duke dot edu

POSIX versioning conditionals;

reduced namespace pollution;

idea to separate routines to reduce statically

linked image sizes.

Rob Fanner rfanner at stonethree dot com

Bug fix.

Michael Johnson michaelj at maine dot rr dot com

Bug fix.

Nicolas Barry boozai at yahoo dot com

Bug fixes.

Piet van Bruggen pietvb at newbridges dot nl

Bug fix.

Makoto Kato raven at oldskool dot jp

AMD64 port.

Panagiotis E. Hadjidoukas peh at hpclab dot ceid dot upatras dot gr

phadjido at cs dot uoi dot gr

Contributed the QueueUserAPCEx package which

makes preemptive async cancelation possible.

Will Bryant will dot bryant at ecosm dot com

Borland compiler patch and makefile.

Anuj Goyal anuj dot goyal at gmail dot com

Port to Digital Mars compiler.

Gottlob Frege gottlobfrege at gmail dot com

re-implemented pthread_once (version 2)

(pthread_once cancellation added by rpj).

Vladimir Kliatchko vladimir at kliatchko dot com

reimplemented pthread_once with the same form

as described by A.Terekhov (later version 2);

implementation of MCS (Mellor-Crummey/Scott) locks.

Ramiro Polla ramiro.polla at gmail dot com

static library auto init/cleanup on application

start/exit via RT hooks (MSC and GCC compilers only).

Daniel Richard G. skunk at iSKUNK dot org

Patches and cleanups for x86 and x64, particularly

across a range of MS build environments.

John Kamp john dot kamp at globalgraphics dot com

Patches to fix various problems on x64; brutal testing

particularly using high memory run environments.


			

Maintained by Ross Johnson