Re: DCE 2.1 for OS/2...use it for Java port?

• To: sl65r@hyrum.declab.usu.edu
• Subject: Re: DCE 2.1 for OS/2...use it for Java port?
• From: Russell Coker - Mailing Lists <bofh@snoopy.apana.org.au>
• Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 22:07:30 +1000 (EST)
• In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950918115701.15233B-100000@pentagon.io.com> from "quantum" at Sep 18, 95 12:00:06 pm

> > >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.
> > 
> > if a public equivilent dosn't exist, maybe we should make one....
> 
> Our plate is full as it is! ;)  Seriously, IBM has been working on a DCE
> port/equivilent with a rather large team for the better part of three years.

   I don't believe that the original poster was suggesting a complete
implementation of DCE as part of the Java/2 project.  I believe that it would
be a good idea to write a library that provides DCE compatible threads and use
that for Java/2.  It has been stated that we need some sort of threads library
that provides a similar functionality to Pthreads.  The advantage of writing
a library that's compatible with DCE is that the DCE libraries could be used
initially for other parts of the development which the replacement libraries
were being developed.  Also if the code could be linked with either DCE or our
libraries then it would be a lot easier to identify and fix bugs in those
libraries (if the code worked with the DCE libraries then we would know it's
thread related).

   Russell Coker

• Re: DCE 2.1 for OS/2...use it for Java port?
• From: Larry Reu <larryr@CyberGate.COM>

• Re: DCE 2.1 for OS/2...use it for Java port?
• From: quantum <brettw@io.com>

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