Started playing with Wineserver on mingw/cygwin again

Marcus Meissner mm at lst.de
Wed Feb 5 08:24:51 CST 2003


On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:00:27AM -0500, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> On February 5, 2003 03:36 am, David Fraser wrote:
> > Under cygwin, there is no clone call as far as I can make out ... there is
> > pthreads support and there is hackish support for fork.
> 
> Do threads in Cygwin's pthreads map one-to-one to Windows threads?
> 
> > Can Wine use pthreads to implement its threading?
> 
> I'm curious about that myself, Alexandre was saying that we have to do it,
> to accommodate the new glibc threading changes. I'd say this is a top issue
> since I expect the new glibc to make it's way into distributions fairly
> soon (maybe by RedHat 9.0), and which point we'll be in a lot of trouble.
> What's the thinking on this, currently?

No, Redhat Phoebe is affected already (is that 8.1?). Shipping soon.

Ciao, marcus



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