[Mono-list] pthreads in mono

[Chris Howie]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber at web.de> wrote:
> So are you implying there are some cases (apart from Windows) where a
> MonoThread/System.Threading.Thread is not a pthread but some non-
> pthread userland thread, like in Java IIRC? Or what did you mean by
> "doesn't support"?

I meant that AFAIK, Mono provides no mechanism to interact with
pthreads directly, for example obtaining a pthread_t* for a specific
thread.  Whether this can be done by p/invoking to libpthread is
beside the point.

My main point (that I probably failed to stress) was that bending over
backwards to wrap an API using a type of thread that may only exist on
one CLR would be a very broken wrapper indeed -- I doubt such a
wrapper would run on Microsoft's implementation, for example.

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