From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Mon Jul 12 12:13:01 2010 X-ME-UUID: 20100712161045149.248382000A7B@mwinf1902.orange.fr Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:10:44 +0200 From: Patrice Mandin To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] threads (was: UNIXMODE defaults) Message-Id: <20100712181044.eabc464b.mandin.patrice@orange.fr> In-Reply-To: <201007121356.09040.oak@helsinkinet.fi> References: <4C224E8E.9020709@atari-source.org> <4C32DBD9.8020405@freesbee.fr> <201007121356.09040.oak@helsinkinet.fi> Organization: Chez moi X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.12; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mandin.patrice@orange.fr Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id o6CGD1HX014219 Le Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:56:08 +0300 Eero Tamminen a écrit: > Hi, > > On Monday 05 July 2010, Alan Hourihane wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 14:52 +0200, Jo Even Skarstein wrote: > > > 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. > > Any idea how well that worked on MiNT? It works, but the application must be properly written to use it, i.e. calling pth_yield() once in a while to switch threads. It's not preemptive at all (which a real thread implementation is), too bad when I discovered that :(. -- Patrice Mandin WWW: http://pmandin.atari.org/ Programmeur Linux, Atari Spécialité: Développement, jeux "who writes the code, decides"