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Subject: Re: List abuse: Posix Threads under IRIX 6.2
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William M. Perry wrote:
> Anybody know of a Posix threads library for irix 6.2?  I don't want to have
> to muck about with sproc() and friends to emulate it.

  [http://www.sgi.com/techpubs/dynaweb_bin/0640/bin/nph-dynaweb.cgi/dynaweb/SGI_Developer/T_IRIX_Prog/@ebt-link?target=%25N%15_13322_START_RESTART_N%25]
 
                                  Chapter 11
                           Thread-Level Parallelism

   IRIX supports IEEE standard 1003.1c-1995, "System Application Program
   Interface - Amendment 2: Threads Extension"; that is, it supports
   POSIX threads, or pthreads. Pthreads are supported by IRIX 6.2 after
   the following patches are applied: 1361, 1367, and 1429.
   ...

