Further loader/pthread.c issues

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Francois Gouget wrote:
> My understanding is that Posix threads have never been and will never be
> sufficient for Wine. The only reason we have a pthreads version of Wine
> is that on recent Linux distributions the way they are implemented makes
> it possible for Wine to achieve its means without using undocumented
> interfaces (i.e. without overriding obscure internal glibc functions).
> But that's not the same as saying Wine is only using the standard
> pthreads API either.

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Posix threads are not enough, we need an implementation that works the
> way NPTL works on Linux, based on kernel threads, and with kernel
> support for signals, thread register, ptrace, etc.

Thanks a lot for the detailed clarifications!  Now I understand some
things quite a bit better. :)

> Last I checked FreeBSD was a user-mode implementation, which cannot
> possibly be made to work. If this has changed and FreeBSD uses kernel
> threads now, they could maybe be used depending on how they are
> implemented, but this will require a lot more work that simply linking
> against libpthread.

Current versions of FreeBSD also support kernel threads (in various
variants), but I agree that it'll take a volunteer who is expert in
that area to make it work properly.

Gerald
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