Sohail Somani wrote:
Aside: Why do you want to bring pthreads into the mix? I know the two threading APIS are Windows and pthreads but still... Couldn't you define a new API that would be a thin wrapper for pthreads?
Why? Users of the POSIX API wouldn't want to adjust their existing code for it. (As a side node, there seems to be significant resistance against adding shallow C++ wrappers around POSIX functions in the POSIX C++ Binding Study Group List) Users of non-POSIX APIs would have to adjust their code, anyway. Transition to "proper C++ code" (for some sense of that phrase) would require the C++ <thread> API, anyway. New C++ code could would likely use the C++ <thread> API, anyway. Regards, m Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com