[cpp-threads] Fixing the thread type

[Nick Maclaren]

"Douglas C. Schmidt" <schmidt at dre.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> 
> > > We had a discussion about whether there should be a project
> > > to develop a C++ binding to POSIX. We think that
> > > we should investigate whether IEEE would be interested
> > > in doing this.
> > 
> > It's a crazy idea.  Until and unless POSIX comes up with a viable
> > threading model, that is binding to a mirage.
>         
> Huh?  We've been doing this with ACE for the past 15 years, which is a
> very widely used C++ toolkit for concurrent network programming.
> 
> I'm not suggesting ACE should be *the* C++ binding to
> POSIX, but it's certainly not "a mirage".

Read what I said again.

The issue is not the binding, which is trivial, but the fact that
POSIX threads is a mirage of a specification.  The closer you try
to approach it, the further it retreats.  I don't need to repeat
the examples, do I?


Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
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