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From: jack@csccat.UUCP (Jack Hudler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: Problem with multiple threads ...
Message-ID: <3460@csccat.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 90 21:44:52 GMT
References: <1028@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> <1702.25a6586a@cc.helsinki.fi>
Reply-To: jack@csccat.UUCP (Jack Hudler)
Distribution: comp.os.os2
Organization: Computer Support Corporation. Dallas,Texas
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In article <1702.25a6586a@cc.helsinki.fi> kulokari@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
>2) When the program did compile (after I had checked from manuals
>what those undefined symbols probably did mean), it did not link.
>_beginthread was not found in the standard C library. Closer
>inspection revealed, that you have been using the multithreaded
>version of the MSC 5.1 library. This is usually (and in this
>case) quite unnecessary, and to be avoided of at any cost.
>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
This statement is quite inaccurate... you must use the
multithread library whenever using stdio in any threads,
howelse is 'errno' going to know which thread to return
the proper error number too, and other like functions.
This was clearly stated in the OS/2 Design Workshops I have
attended in Redmond.
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Jack 		Computer Support Corportion		Dallas,Texas 
Hudler		UUCP: {texsun,texbell,attctc}!csccat!jack