help, service thread, pthread, segv

[Mike Hearn]

> Why cannot we use pthreads directly ?

pthreads doesn't offer enough to fully implement the Win32 threading
primitives from what I understand, so Wine has to work at a lower level.

If you're on RH9, you have to configure using --with-nptl, which
switches to the new threading model. Did you do that?

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Mike Hearn <m.hearn at signal.qinetiq.com>
QinetiQ - Malvern Technology Center