From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Mon Jul 5 18:30:35 2010 X-Squirrel-UserHash: EhVcX1lFRQVaRwYcDQ== X-Squirrel-FromHash: UANfXlhDRFA= Message-ID: <9fdb00e990c7f37a8b441e6eb6e79ddd-EhVcX1lFRQVaRwYcDTpQCEFddQZLVF5dQUBFBDBTXF5bVkYJXltoA1I6XF1YSUYEV1NcQA==-webmailer2@server02.webmailer.hosteurope.de> In-Reply-To: <1278330688.6162.27.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> References: <4C224E8E.9020709@atari-source.org> <201006251425.26767.oak@helsinkinet.fi> <201007051143.05220.oak@helsinkinet.fi> <1278330688.6162.27.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 00:29:10 +0200 Subject: Re: [MiNT] UNIXMODE defaults From: "m0n0" To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Reply-To: ole@monochrom.net User-Agent: Host Europe Webmailer/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-HE-Access: Yes X-bounce-key: webpack.hosteurope.de;ole@monochrom.net;1278368952;472a1dcf; X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: ole@monochrom.net Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Am Mo, 5.07.2010, 13:51 schrieb Alan Hourihane: > MiNT & MiNTlib don't have a thread implementation. MiNTlib is > unfortunately far from thread-safe. > > Alan. Multi-Threading (posix compatible) would probably make porting some apps more easy. But I think it is not really needed often - altough many programmers use it. But probably these programs could also be rewritten to work without multi-threading. Maybe even cleaner & more stable? ,... I once had an look into an mult-threading lib for the atari st,... But I think it will not work with the multi-tasking OSes, because it switches the Stack Pointers / PC within current process... -- Greets, Ole