Re: Threading advice sought

From: Jeff Hobbs (jeffh_at_removethis.activestate.com)
Date: 12/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 14:19:41 -0800
To: David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>

David Gravereaux wrote:
> Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
>>The ActiveState versions I've loaded are apparently not thread-enabled,
>>as there's no mention of it in tcl_platform.
>
>
> Correct. Jeff somehow feels he doesn't want threads turned on for
> support reasons is my best guess as some extensions most notably TclX and
> Expect, can't use thread support due to OS problems regarding fork().
> Then there's the thread::transfer issue for Expect.. and [puts] under
> wish not being able to init to the redirected console widget.. and..
> jeez.. Just so much getting in the way...

That's correct. I don't fear the threads stuff much on
Windows, because the threading model/implementation is more
consistent than the gazillion pthreads variants out there.
And of course things like fork() are a non-issue on Windows,
but a major PITA on unix. 

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   Jeff Hobbs, The Tcl Guy
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