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Re: timetable change on mingw-libgcj
>>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> writes:
Bryce> Mach does provide a thread_suspend() and thread_resume(), and
Bryce> you can more or less mix direct mach calls with pthreads calls
Bryce> since pthreads is just a layer over mach. I presume there is
Bryce> also a way to get the register state of a suspended thread, but
Bryce> I havn't really looked yet.
Bryce> Apple are planning to implement the missing pthreads
Bryce> functionality (ie pthread_kill) at some point, but I wouldn't
Bryce> hold my breath ;-)
There's no requirement to use the pthreads API.
If the Mach threads API has what is needed for the port, just use that
instead. Writing a new thread port isn't very hard.
Tom