krb5 libraries and circular dependencies

[Nicolas Williams]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 04:10:42AM -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> --On Monday, May 31, 2010 07:48:35 PM -0500 Nicolas Williams
> <Nicolas.Williams at oracle.com> wrote:
> >There's no reason to use Solaris threads instead of pthreads: under the
> >hood they are the same thing.
> 
> To be extra-clear: Solaris threads and pthreads are different API's
> onto the same underlying thread system.  You can mix and match the
> API's with impunity.

Right.  For portability you'll want to stick to pthreads.

> >I don't know about Mach (or did you mean MacOS?).
> 
> If you look closely and squint just right, MacOS _is_ Mach.

I know, but it's also BSDish.  I don't know enough about developing
threaded apps in C in MacOS.

Nico
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