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RE: Patch for Apple Cthreads



> I would like to generize the Mach Cthreads implementation...
>
> Do all Cthread implementations require PTHREAD_PREEMPTIVE defined?
> Or
> Is this define only required by Apple's implementation of
> Mach Cthreads?

Well, it depends on whether the threads are preemptive or not :-) In the
case of MacOS X Server (nee Rhapsody) and NEXTSTEP, they are, as they're
mapped to Mach threads. There are various user level Cthreads
implementations, however, for which this may not be the case.




-- Luke