> [ long win32 proposal ]
>
> I've to read through that some more times.
OK; let me know if you have any questions on how the Win32 stuff
works. I tried to explain things that are unlike POSIX, but of course
it makes sense to me.
> Do you alread have ideas for a common API, or where to split the
Gabe Schaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, there has to be a separate thread to get signals, and each thread
> needs its own event queue, but why does the process have a global
> event_queue? I suppose there are generic events that could be handled
> just by the next thread to call check_even
> >> Not quite. COND_WAIT takes an opaque type defined by the platform, that
> >> happens to be a mutex for the pthreads based implementation.
>
> > It should, but it doesn't. Here's the definition:
> > # define COND_WAIT(c,m) pthread_cond_wait(&c, &m)
>
> You are already in the POSIX specific p
Gabe Schaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:57:00 +0100, Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Gabe Schaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > * COND_WAIT takes a mutex because that's how pthreads works, but Win32
>> > condition variables (called "events") are kernel obj
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:57:00 +0100, Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gabe Schaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > * COND_WAIT takes a mutex because that's how pthreads works, but Win32
> > condition variables (called "events") are kernel objects that do not
> > require any other object
At 12:57 PM +0100 11/15/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Gabe Schaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was just browsing the Parrot source, and noticed that the threading
implementation is a bit Unix/pthread-centric. For example:
* COND_WAIT takes a mutex because that's how pthreads works, but Win32
co
Gabe Schaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was just browsing the Parrot source, and noticed that the threading
> implementation is a bit Unix/pthread-centric. For example:
> * COND_WAIT takes a mutex because that's how pthreads works, but Win32
> condition variables (called "events") are kernel
