From: mental@...
Date: 2006-03-07T07:03:50+09:00
Subject: Re: pthreads on HPUX

Quoting Daniel Amelang <daniel.amelang@gmail.com>:

> Sorry for the late reply.
>
> This isn't any 40 point process, but maybe it'll do:
>
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/177036
>
> mental is the guy that wrote it, and he (apparently) uses ruby on
> hpux quite a bit.

I don't recall having any problems with pthreads, but then I haven't
been trying to use extensions which actively require them either.

In general HP-UX is a bad platform for building any software which
wasn't written specifically for it.  Use something else if you
possibly can.

-mental