On Wednesday 03 October 2007 16:16:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > On 03/10/2007, Clemens Kolbitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi! > > i know... i have been told not to use them, but i just HAVE TO for the > > moment :-( > > > > i need to run a second thread inside my hardware module which is not a > > problem as long as i don't use the qcow2 image format. when i switch to > > qcow2, qemu's main thread hangs because the second thread is waiting for > > a semaphore... > > > > does anyone know how to tell the second pthread not to block the primary > > thread?? > > Maybe this thread can be helpful: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2007-04/msg00090.html
yes.. that might have been helpful if I hadn't solved the problem differently (and I'm quite happy to have gotten rid of the pthread code ;-) ) Thanks for the answer, though!!