[rescue] OpenBSD

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Wed Jan 30 20:07:43 CST 2002


On January 30, Linc Fessenden wrote:
> >   It is completely incompatible with the STANDARD threading API that
> > EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD uses.
> 
> I would hope so..  Most of the rest of the world uses Windows.

  The *threading API*, man.  Pthreads.

> I'll add that it may actually *be* different, but that does not mean it
> doesn't work.

  Sure it works.  It's just not compatible with what the rest of the
world uses.  Meaning Pthreads software won't run under Linux without
porting, and threaded Linux software won't run on anything else
without porting.

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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