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| author | Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> | 2010-10-12 19:19:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> | 2010-10-12 19:19:39 +0200 |
| commit | a3b989c2749ae8b6a69145184f9051c907e3ceb0 (patch) | |
| tree | 0c2f3efd66d6991e88e8202ab8a80cb257e98e33 /community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn | |
| parent | 4f16a009926ea28a7be6a192126a75a206ad9f45 (diff) | |
| parent | 8a86419c2083bcec0cd86e65376fb183c55a6c3c (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of flubber:~hurd-web/hurd-web
Diffstat (limited to 'community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn')
| -rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn index a33187f6..2270c774 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn @@ -17,11 +17,12 @@ The Hurd was originally created at a time when the [pthreads standard](http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/pthread.h.html) didn't exist yet. Thus all Hurd servers and libraries are using the old [[cthreads|hurd/libcthreads]] package that came with [[microkernel/Mach]], -which is not compatible with [[pthreads|hurd/libpthread]]. +which is not compatible with pthreads. Not only does that mean that people hacking on Hurd internals have to deal with a non-standard thread package, which nobody is familiar with. Although a -pthreads implementation for the Hurd was created in the meantime, it's not +[[pthreads implementation for the Hurd|libpthread]] +was created in the meantime, it's not possible to use both cthreads and pthreads in the same program. Consequently, pthreads can't presently be used in any Hurd servers -- including translators. |