Re: boost/thread on Linux

From: williamkempf_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-10-09 15:20:40

--- In Boost-Users_at_y..., "Eric Ford" <eford_at_m...> wrote:
> > > I fixed the xtime_get error by defining BOOST_HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY. 
It 
> > > would be nice if it could get enabled by default though.
> 
> Thanks, that got it working for me.  The examples and tests worked
> with the default kernel pthreads.  However, when compiled with the 
MIT
> patched user pthreads library, multiple programs aborted.  I have no
> need to use user level threads, but thought I'd mention it, in case
> any one else had a similar problem or wanted to look into the source
> of the problem.
> 
> E

As the primary developer I'd greatly appreciate any patches required 
for various platforms (which would include the above user level 
problems).  I'm a Windows developer and only really have access to a 
Windows box.  The pthread implementation was done on pthreads-win32, 
and thanks to a good standard works on most of the platforms that 
people have tried it on, but I suspect there's going to be several 
things that need adjusting and there's no way for me to do it.

I'm posting this here instead of the main Boost list mostly as a 
heads up for users that expect full cross platform support from 
Boost.Threads.  It's going to be there, and hopefully very soon now 
that it's accepted into Boost, but expect a few bumps along the way.

Bill Kempf