On 06/22/2010 02:57 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > >> Of course you can avoid using the library, do the stuff in Pascal and >> directly access the Kernel API, but this might be dangerous in case the >> API might be modified some time in the future >> > Wouldn't the same apply to the pthreads library? From what I understand the > currently implementation of NTPL is very good, so I doubt it will change > any time soon. > I suppose that the Kernel Thread API (NPTL, FUTEX) in fact is here to stay, but especially _using_ the FUTEX API in a user land application is tricky, so relying on libc (on that behalf) seems like a good idea, as it's "pthread...()" api is easy to use.
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