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Matthew O. Persico
Date:
May 16, 2003 17:07
Subject:
OT - technical terms [was: Re: Last Call For (Least) Favourite Issues For 5.8.1
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On Fri, 16 May 2003 17:27:44 +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:

[snip]
> we are fucked (to use a technical term).

Before someone inevitably gets their shorts in a dither, I just read an article in Wired about the
>If, say, a library starts up a POSIX thread using pthread_create(),
>there is very little we can do anything about it (know about it,
>stop it, get results from that thread, see it) unless the library
>cooperates (by giving an API).  Throw in other OS level thread
>systems
>and models than POSIX, like e.g. Win32 and we are even more fucked.


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Matthew O. Persico




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