Re: Question... (should be Pthreads & Performer)

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Alejandro Saez (cano++at++krusty.engr.sgi.com)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:35:33 -0600

Just to make things worst, I understand that before IRIX 6.5, IRIX
never really had pthreads, it was just a wrapper from sprocs.

>
> So what is the point now?
> Is it a bug in OGL that might be fixed in 6.5.3 or is it because of
> the use of arenas? It would be very kind of you to make a final
> statement about:
>
> 1) Why Performer and pthread don't work.
> 2) Why they might work (in another OS release cause of bugfixing)
> 3) I thought an incompatibility comes from the X-Server which is not
> (p)thread-safe (might be the same as the OGL bug you were
> referencing)
>
> Since lots of our work is based on pthreads, it would be very nice
> to know if it will still work (or even better) after e.g. a system
> upgrade.
> (currently 6.2 and 6.4). Or if we better stick to the older releases.
>
> thx in advance

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