[fpc-devel] Multithreading under DOS

Tomas Hajny XHajT03 at hajny.biz
Fri Sep 27 11:28:03 CEST 2013


On Fri, September 27, 2013 09:21, Michael Schnell wrote:
> On 09/26/2013 07:31 PM, Leif Ekblad wrote:
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>> DOS never "sleeps". DOS is invoked as you use int 21h.
>
> Yep. So the "DOS multithread RTL" flavor  need to handle this whenever
> you do an int 21h.

"DOS multithread RTL" would be something very different from the original
idea of a pluggable thread manager (potentially using some sort of
external library as previously suggested by you) - both
implementation-wise and also regarding its behaviour/limitations.

Tomas





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