Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!feeder.erje.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: comp.programming.threads,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: reengineering c++ code that uses pthreads on Sun Solaris Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:39:07 +0900 Lines: 15 Message-ID: <8739jrk81w.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <9dfaebc1-94b7-4e0d-b04b-30edfc99282c@d28g2000yqf.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: individual.net nUjfK1CEOkZQRrq/YMMs0g0yTXI0F97u8i8AW8aOCPgfjXZMcP Cancel-Lock: sha1:CzeiPGXbP4BZbo/i6ixmApgqQwk= sha1:05ChsoAUBNKkYPiP/PI6gYmBslg= System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.programming.threads:242 comp.lang.c++:6110 comp.unix.programmer:725 comp.unix.solaris:758 I'm a bit confused about what it has to do with pthreads anyway -- don't most other thread packages use roughly the same model anyway? If the code base is hard to maintain, maybe somethings has to be done, but it would seem at first glance that the choice of thread package isn't a main issue... -miles -- Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants [sic] from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.