Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Todd Carnes Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Windows Posix Support (was Re: C is fixed or not ?) Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 01:06:54 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <4e116c59$0$13719$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <5fa80219-4bc8-4af8-9766-54501eb5ab90@j15g2000yqf.googlegroups.com> <97ek3iFq2bU2@mid.individual.net> <4e13c801$0$20925$a729d347@news.telepac.pt> <4e13d4a7$0$20921$a729d347@news.telepac.pt> <37pfe8-4gl.ln1@jones.homeip.net> <4e15c44f$0$22156$a729d347@news.telepac.pt> NNTP-Posting-Host: uqlV+6kNo2Z0TnMsKGN6tA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c:8048 On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 01:31:35 +0100, J. J. Farrell wrote: > Rui Maciel wrote: >> lawrence.jones@siemens.com wrote: >> >>> My understanding, from people who know a whole lot more about it than >>> I do, is that POSIX threads cannot be implemented on top of Windows >>> because it presupposes a bunch of POSIX features that Windows doesn't >>> provide, at least in the form that POSIX threads requires. >> >> Oh really? >> >> Pthread Support in Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX Version 3.5 >> Published: June 15, 2004 >> >> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463209.aspx > > ... which implements a subset of an old version of POSIX threads which > can only be used in programs running in the POSIX subsystem. Nothing to > do with using POSIX thread interfaces in "normal" Windows programs. ... And none of this has anything to do with the OP's original question. Todd