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From: jg@quabbin.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
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Subject: Re: CMA threads usage?
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.141321.23867@crl.dec.com>
Date: 10 Jan 91 14:13:21 GMT
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In article <18809@shlump.nac.dec.com> billmers@merlyn.enet.dec.com (Meyer Billmers) writes:
>> My understanding is that CMA is going to be replaced by Pthreads.  We are
>> aiming our (extensive) threads development at that enviroment.
>
>Pardon my ignorance (for that's probably what it is), but isn't CMA part of
>OSF's Distributed Computing Environment (DCE)? If so, how could OSF/1 using
>something else (e.g. Pthreads)?


You are correct; CMA is part of DCE.  But there is no conflict here; pthreads
has been influenced by the CMA work, and it is a simple matter of programming
interfaces, as I understand it, rather than significant functionality
differences.  I'm not expert in these matters, but I don't know if any
of the people working on CMA read this group (particularly since they
have to get the OSF the code sometime around now, from what I remember).
				- Jim
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