From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d0d32a18bbb61bb0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: ffc1e,d0d32a18bbb61bb0 X-Google-Attributes: gidffc1e,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-03 11:52:07 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!209.10.34.151!newsfeed.sjc.globix.net!nntp.webmaster.com!not-for-mail From: David Schwartz Newsgroups: comp.programming.threads,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD a better choice for threads/tasking? Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 11:41:19 -0700 Organization: WebMaster, Incorporated Message-ID: <3ACA194F.14F2D76F@webmaster.com> References: <3AC4EE29.424057F6@ebox.tninet.se> <52Jx6.39238$9O3.723041@news.total.net> <871yranq1w.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3ACA15AC.31C02720@bga.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: joelkatz.goldrush.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nntp.webmaster.com 986323282 23385 206.171.168.130 (3 Apr 2001 18:41:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@webmaster.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Apr 2001 18:41:22 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: supernews.google.com comp.programming.threads:3477 comp.lang.ada:6409 Date: 2001-04-03T18:41:22+00:00 List-Id: "Arthur H. Gold" wrote: > No argument there; the only problem is that in this respect > linuxthreads contravenes the POSIX standard for threads, > resulting in portability problems. It's not that terribly difficult to avoid using signals in a multithreaded program. This is one of the many cases where the standard is lacking. 'set[re]uid' is another. DS