On 16 October 2010 14:37, Andrew Brunner <andrew.t.brun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Henry Vermaak <henry.verm...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> pthreads is the standard, not the implementation. The current most >> widely used implementation is called NPTL. Your link points to >> LinuxThreads (judging by the name, I didn't download): > > pthreads is not the standard. pthreads.so is the implementation of > POSIX thread specification to be precise :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX_Threads says: "POSIX Threads, or Pthreads, is a POSIX standard for threads." libpthread.so is the name of the library, not the name of the implementation. > Ok. You mentioned NPTL. What can you tell me about that? Is that the > project that makes pthreads? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_POSIX_Thread_Library _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
