Re: [MiNT] threads (was: UNIXMODE defaults)

[Patrice Mandin <mandin.patrice@orange.fr>]

Le Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:56:08 +0300
Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi> a écrit:

> Hi,
> 
> On Monday 05 July 2010, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 14:52 +0200, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Any idea how well that worked on MiNT?

It works, but the application must be properly written to use it, i.e.
calling pth_yield() once in a while to switch threads. It's not
preemptive at all (which a real thread implementation is), too bad when
I discovered that :(.

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