Re: [AD] public thread API

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I've never really understood condition variables (so apologies in
advance!) but AFAIK there are no condition variables in the Windows
API. Are you planning to implement them somehow?

Pete


On 8/5/08, Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A couple of weeks (months) ago there was a re-suggestion to expose a
> thread API.  At that time I started writing down the docs for such a
> thing then forgot about it.  Here it is, in source and rendered HTML.
>
> I think I was the only one who had objections to including a thread API,
> so whoever feels like working on this should go right ahead.
> The internal API mostly matches this already.
>
> * initialisation functions take preallocated objects; should they
>  allocate on the heap and return pointers instead?
>
> * I didn't stray from the pthreads word order; should we?
>
> Peter
>
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