[vlc-devel] [RFC] planned pth, state threads and cthreads removal

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> 	Hello,
> 
> Support for GNU pth has been broken for several years, and there seems to be 
> no interest whatsoever in bringing it back to a usable state. Same for State 
> Threads. Besides, as cooperative multithreading libraries, they most probably 
> don't work at all due to the heavy use of the socket API inside VLC.
> 
> Cthreads is even worse as it seems pretty much dead upstream... for over TEN 
> years.
> 
> pthread (and Win32) most certainly supersedes it on any supported platform.

You got my support on this one.

Gtz
Jean-Paul Saman.