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Re: DCE 2.1 for OS/2...use it for Java port?
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> >I suggested the DCE package because it has header files for
> >pthreads. EMX doesn't have those headers or libraries.
> >So how would we go about porting that?
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> what - exactly - is in DCE?
> [forgive my ignorance of os/2speak - its a while since i worked on os/2
> (about 3 years infact)]
DCE is not OS/2 speak. DCE is Unix-speak. :)
Check out:
http://www.austin.ibm.com/developer/os2/os2press/os2pr_895_10.html
http://www.europe.ibm.com/getdoc/psmemea/progserv/beta/other/dceos2.html
DCE includes things like RPC, POSIX pthreads, and other
neat stuff. Send mail to dcereq@vnet.ibm.com and ask them
to send you more information.
> what is so special about DCE in relation to threads that isn't avail via
> normal os/2 threads...?
I dunno. Probably not much, I haven't compared the APIs. However,
Solaris does it's multithreading via an API much closer to pthreads
than the OS/2 API, so it MAY make porting easier.
> if it is special, maybe we need a public equivalent...?
If you know of a public equivalent of POSIX pthreads + libraries, let
me know. :) I just suggested going for DCE because it is under
beta now, is low cost if you get accepted to the beta program,
and it exists now.
This porting project is non-trivial. Dunno how the multimedia
stuff will be ported. :)
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