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From: James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: best approach for multithreading (?)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2024 00:16:20 -0500
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On 12/6/24 11:10, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:
>> On 2024-12-06, James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
....
>>> C <threads.h> can be implemented as a thin wrapper over POSIX threads.
>>> The waste is relatively negligible. The differences, were intended to
>>> allow <threads.h> to also be implemented on non-POSIX systems as
>>> wrappers for whatever the native threading system was.
>>
>> Generally speaking, you can have a function called pthread_create on
>> non-POSIX systems, and a header <pthread.h>.
>
> There are certain requirements of a posix threads implementation that
> might be impossible for a non-POSIX system to implement efficiently;
> windows, for example, doesn't support signals.

My words above not-withstanding, I am not in any sense an expert on any
kind of threading, nor of Windows. What does POSIX require of threads
with regards to signals?