From: Alper Akçan (distch@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu 18 Apr 2002 - 22:47:18 IDT
>Hey All,
>
>This Q is directed more towards the developers of
>SVGALib. Specifically, I have noticed that there have
>been a few people that have ran into the problem of
>using threads with svgalib because of a signal
>conflict. Now I understand that in building svgalib
>you can specify that you can change the the signal.
>Now that is fine, but does anybody foresee changing it
>so that svgalib will no longer conflict with pthreads?
>Note, this Q is meant to spark a discussion on whether
>svgalib should be compliant with pthreads.
>
>I personally think that svgalib should be made
>compliant with pthreads. This is because I could
>readily use threads in a svgalib dependent program.
>But I am not too familiar with the internals of
>svgalib, so such a blanket statement could mean many
>repercussion.
>
>Have a nice day ;-)
>Daniel Smith
How about using RT signals in your app, so with your threads.
(POSIX.4)
There should be a book called "POSIX Real Time Programming" that contains
these.
Good Luck.
Alper Akçan.
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