NPTL and Wine threads
Dan Kegel
dank at kegel.com
Tue Feb 1 08:56:57 CST 2005
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>>>there is some code in FreeDCE which expects to be able to jump out
>>>of a cancellation handler
>>
>>Then FreeDCE should be fixed to be POSIX-compliant, I think.
>>Or is there something subtle going on here?
>
>
> the behaviour of LinuxThreads is different from NPTL.
>
> therefore, given that this cancellation thing matters for dce
> applications (the runtime relies on it being possible) i thought
> you might wish to be aware of this subtle difference in case
> Wine MSRPC or other applications also rely on it.
>
> that's all - nothing more.
Right. Nothing subtle, then. I guess FreeDCE needs some
work to run on NPTL or other POSIX-compliant threads packages,
as it's using Linuxthreads behavior that is an extension of POSIX threads.
(Surely FreeDCE doesn't *need* to longjmp out of a cancellation handler;
it can't be that hard to fix.) Thanks for the heads up.
- Dan
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