Re: Boost.Thread and Mac OS

From: Markus Schoepflin (markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-19 03:36:17

--- In boost_at_y..., Darin Adler <darin_at_b...> wrote:
> on 10/18/01 4:01 PM, Brian Sharpe at brian_at_p... wrote:
> 

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> For threads in Mac OS before Mac OS X, you have two main choices
> <http://developer.apple.com/macos/multiprocessing.html>. The 
Macintosh
> Thread Manager gives you co-operative multitasking, which might not 
fit the
> Boost.Thread library abstraction well. The Multiprocessing API would
> probably fit the Boost.Thread model pretty well, but there are some 
pretty
> severe restrictions on what parts of the Mac OS you can use from 
threads
> other than the main one.
> 

I don't know if this is of any relevance but there is a pthreads 
library for MacOS. Might be easier to use this library as POSIX 
threads are already supported.

See http://sourceforge.net/projects/gusi/

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