From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Mon Jul 5 09:12:56 2010 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [MiNT] UNIXMODE defaults From: Alan Hourihane To: Jo Even Skarstein Cc: mint@lists.fishpool.fi In-Reply-To: <3125DD3BC80F4DFB9FE8F21C6DA5CAB7@mercatus.local> References: <4C224E8E.9020709@atari-source.org> <201007051143.05220.oak@helsinkinet.fi> <1278330688.6162.27.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <201007051542.32460.oak@helsinkinet.fi> <3125DD3BC80F4DFB9FE8F21C6DA5CAB7@mercatus.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:10:07 +0100 Message-ID: <1278335407.24405.6.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: alanh@fairlite.co.uk Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 14:52 +0200, Jo Even Skarstein wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Eero Tamminen" > Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 2:42 PM > To: > Subject: Re: [MiNT] UNIXMODE defaults > > >> MiNTlib is unfortunately far from thread-safe. > > > > If MiNT doesn't thread, MiNTlib being thread-safe (locking etc) would just > > make it slower without any benefits... > > Ozk made some stuff that made use of threads about 10 years ago, but I don't > know how he did it. Perhaps he can explain if he follows this list these > days. Right, this is GNU pth. Which has a "pthreads emulation". This is all in user-space with jmp table fudging. No kernel support at all. Alan.