Subj : Re: [RFC] Boost.Threads on its way to C++0x
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Peter Dimov
Date : Thu Apr 28 2005 04:37 pm

Randy Howard wrote:
> I didn't say I wanted to write some new library.  I'm not sure why
> you are being argumentative, I simply asked why a standards body
> would ignore a widely used solution just because Microsoft does not
> currently include a header file.

There are some indications that they might acknowledge the existence of the 
Posix threading standard after all.

The C++ committee is split into three working groups, library, evolution 
(extensions) and core (language). The library working group has been 
reluctant in the past to accept that pthreads should become a required part 
of the C++ standard library because then the library vendors should've been 
required to implement it on platforms where there isn't one.

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