NTPL & pthreads locks
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com
Tue Apr 22 15:15:31 CDT 2003
Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> writes:
> sigprocmask may be thread-local in NPTL, but it's not in SUSv3,
> which doesn't at all specify what happens when
> you call sigprocmask in a multithreaded program. See
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/toc.htm
> For portability's sake, one should probably use pthread_sigmask.
If we really wanted portable threading we should use only pthreads
functions throughout. But of course there's the small drawback that it
wouldn't let us run most Windows apps...
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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com
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