Product: Fedora https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961303
Bug ID: 961303 Summary: Review Request: mingw-winpthreads - MinGW pthread library Product: Fedora Version: rawhide Component: Package Review Severity: unspecified Priority: unspecified Assignee: nobody@fedoraproject.org Reporter: erik-fedora@vanpienbroek.nl QA Contact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org CC: fedora-mingw@lists.fedoraproject.org, notting@redhat.com, package-review@lists.fedoraproject.org Category: ---
Spec URL: http://svn.nntpgrab.nl/svn/fedora_cross/mingw-winpthreads/mingw-winpthreads.... SRPM URL: http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/3113/5353113/mingw-winpthreads... Koji scratch build: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=5353109
Description: The POSIX 1003.1-2001 standard defines an application programming interface (API) for writing multithreaded applications. This interface is known more commonly as pthreads. A good number of modern operating systems include a threading library of some kind: Solaris (UI) threads, Win32 threads, DCE threads, DECthreads, or any of the draft revisions of the pthreads standard. The trend is that most of these systems are slowly adopting the pthreads standard API, with application developers following suit to reduce porting woes.
Win32 does not, and is unlikely to ever, support pthreads natively. This project seeks to provide a freely available and high-quality solution to this problem.