[Box Backup-dev] Current status

[Martin Ebourne]

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 21:54 +0000, Ben Summers wrote:
> I would be unhappy about using threads in the POSIX versions. I know  
> from painful experience that C++ and pthreads don't go well together  
> on a few platforms due to non-thread-safe exception handling,  
> although this may have been fixed now.

C++ and pthreads work perfectly well on Linux, any recent Solaris, and I
can't imagine they don't work on *BSD. There aren't many other
interesting Unix variants left!

As long as pthreads are only used to enhance box, and not implement core
functionality, I'm in favour. No point restricting every posix platform
to the lowest common denominator.

Cheers,

Martin.