Re: [Fwd: C Language Thread API]

[Ted Baker <baker@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:16:36PM +0200, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:

> ... The C language and memory model will finally acknowledge
> the existence of threads.  It could do that without providing an API,
> and maybe suggest these primitives as a theoretical way to implement
> threading.

Which I would find appealing in a language standard, as it could
apply to not only POSIX multi-threaded programming but other
systems.

> However I'd suspicious of such a purely theoretical model.
> If it doesn't get some real-life exposure in its own right, design
> bugs and other problems don't get detected as easily.

So, how about the proof of concept POSIX threads?

Ted