Re: NTPL & pthreads locks

[Alexandre Julliard]

Dan Kegel  writes:
> sigprocmask may be thread-local in NPTL, but it's not in SUSv3,
> which doesn't at all specify what happens when
> you call sigprocmask in a multithreaded program.  See
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/toc.htm
> For portability's sake, one should probably use pthread_sigmask.

If we really wanted portable threading we should use only pthreads
functions throughout. But of course there's the small drawback that it
wouldn't let us run most Windows apps...