[cpp-threads] Re: Thread API interface tweaks

[Alexander Terekhov]

On 8/31/06, Bronek Kozicki <brok at spamcop.net> wrote:
> Alexander Terekhov <alexander.terekhov at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/31/06, Peter Dimov <pdimov at mmltd.net> wrote:
> > [...]
> >> 5. Microsoft platforms will, hopefully, gain an official POSIX
> >> threads implementation.
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/unix/sfu/pthreads0.mspx
> > I think it's even free (as in beer :-) ).
>
> it's "Microsoft plaftorm" in rather limited sense. The purpose of SFU is
> to facilitate porting of Unix programs so that they could run on Windows
> computers. It does it through installing another subsystem, running side
> by side with Win32 API subsystem. Subsystem in Windows world is a set of
> system API available to user-mode programs, as opposed to so called
> native APIs available to kernel-mode programs only, and Win32 API is the
> only subsystem guaranteed to be available on all Windows machines. SFU
> it is not an extension of Win32 API, it is wholly new API based on POSIX
> specification and existing Windows programs cannot use it (unless they
> are ported to POSIX, that is).
>
> In other words, assumption that POSIX threading semantics is available
> to programs on Windows platform is a little too optimistic.

Well,

http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/tm.aspx?m=9366

regards,
alexander.