Re: [boost] Boost.Threads, N2178, N2184, et al

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-19 17:14:20

Sohail Somani wrote:

> A fine reason, but why would you want to lump it in with <thread>? Or
> alternatively, require <thread> to depend on <pthread.h>? Looks like
> there should be another proposal to add <pthread.h> to the standard...

I've tried to address some of these questions in N2178, sections III and IV.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2178.html#principles

Basically, it's easy for the committee to adopt just the pthread.h portion 
of N2178 if they like, but I've presented both APIs in the document to 
emphasize that they form a coherent whole, are intended to play well 
together (in mixed C/C++ code), and are merely different views to the same 
threading core.