Alexander Terekhov wrote:
Peter Dimov wrote:
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This is the whole point of an abstraction. The only reason we aren't using it on Windows is because Microsoft doesn't supply it.
Uhmm.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/Jan04/01-15ServicesforUNIX2004...
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Microsoft's Newest Version of Windows Services for UNIX Is Now Available Free of Charge
Sure, it's free of charge. The problem is that you can't write apps using Win32 that use SFU pthreads code, IIUC. I attempted to use SFU 3.5 some time ago to provide a "glue" layer between some legacy UNIX apps/libraries and some new Win32 code and, at least at that point, it was not possible to create a library with SFU that could be linked to from MSVC created applications. I had a discussion with one of the engineers and he told me that it was on their todo list (and I guess it still is): http://tinyurl.com/25nbyq Also, requiring anyone to install a new subsystem just to be able to use something as common as threads in C++ is overkill. I'm not implying that Win32 threads are superior to pthreads (I don't know and I don't care), that's not the point here. Regards, Johan