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From: lawrence.jones@siemens.com
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Subject: Re: POSIX threads hard to implement in Windows
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:08:10 -0400
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William Ahern <william@wilbur.25thandclement.com> wrote:
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> POSIX threads can be implemented quite comprehensively on Windows:
> 
>         http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/conformance.html

Then why is there a long list of unimplemented functions?  Certainly
there are *parts* of pthreads that can be implemented on Windows, but
that's not the same thing as implementing the whole thing.
-- 
Larry Jones

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