Re: [MiNT] UNIXMODE defaults

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 14:52 +0200, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Eero Tamminen" <oak@helsinkinet.fi>
> Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 2:42 PM
> To: <mint@lists.fishpool.fi>
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] UNIXMODE defaults
> 
> >> MiNTlib is unfortunately far from thread-safe.
> >
> > If MiNT doesn't thread, MiNTlib being thread-safe (locking etc) would just
> > make it slower without any benefits...
> 
> Ozk made some stuff that made use of threads about 10 years ago, but I don't 
> know how he did it. Perhaps he can explain if he follows this list these 
> days.

Right, this is GNU pth. Which has a "pthreads emulation". This is all in
user-space with jmp table fudging. No kernel support at all.

Alan.