Re: Mailsemaphore / pthread library / PDA Software

Rajko Albrecht wrote :

> as I seen libetpan in its current cvs version uses semaphores for threadsafe 
> library. 
> 
> Of course this is fine, but not on PDAs :( 
> 
> linking again libpthread means one not wanted depend to external lib more. So 
> I think (and others from OPIE team, too) that there should be a flag while 
> configure disabling the built-in threadsafe mechanism or references to 
> libpthread. Otherwise we run into a little bit trouble and libetpan becomes 
> unuseable to us.

That things is only used in the future multithreaded engine.
I will try to make it possible to disable this.

By the way, what kind of thread interface is available on PDA ?
I think that for user interface response, sometimes, threads are needed.

> As I saw the stuff was inserted start of september so I think handling it in a 
> more comfortable enduser-way should be possible.
> 
> what about?

I'll try to do some work around that.

-- 
DINH V. Hoa,

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