Started playing with Wineserver on mingw/cygwin again

Marcus Meissner marcus at jet.franken.de
Thu Feb 6 13:57:17 CST 2003


> Do we have a definitive explanation of just how bad the current
> wine/pthread incompatibilities are, and/or where current efforts are at?
> I'd not known there were any efforts to get wine working with nptl
> (hence my perhaps exaggerated alarm) until the link to Ingo's kernel
> patch was posted (aug2002 moreover) which suggests at least that some
> people *are* working on this (phew). I would be very grateful to know
> what the status is. Anyone? TIA.

There are no known current efforts.

However I talked to Ulrich today and he said (and I agree) that it
will be way easier to implement threading on top of (nptl) pthreads
today.

Just no one started/did it yet.

And we do not need the glibc developers, the ball is in our park ;)

Ciao, marcus



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