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On 14 Jul 2001, George Foot <gfoot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 03:14:48PM +1000, Peter Wang wrote:
> > (0) pause the main thread when timer (etc.) callbacks are running
> ...
> > (0) is good because it means _all_ old DOS code ported to non-DOS
> > platforms will still be correct. Otherwise it's not very nice, and
> > has problems associated with it.
>
> Is it even possible in pthreads?
I can't find anything, so I guess not. That's one of the problems :-)
> > (1 a) is my preference.
...
> My feelings against this were mostly: why should we implement
> yet another thread wrapper API? It would be nice to just use
> pthreads. I guess it's unreasonable to expect people to have it
> in Windows though.
Nor in BeOS, IIRC.