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For a Win32 implementation, see the thread "Lua 4.1 Alpha and Win32
Multithreading" from 8/3/2001.

Thanks,
Josh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Tetz [mailto:erictetz@yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 12:22 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: RE: Lua-SS
> 
> 
> --- Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> > >Having a POSIX library that runs against the Lua 4.1 build 
> would be 
> > >superb.
> > 
> > Like I said, there is already a POSIX library for Lua 4.0. It's 
> > poslib.tar.gz all Lua ftp sites.  It should work with 4.1, 
> except for 
> > the uses of lua_pushuserdata, which has benn renamed in 4.1 (due to 
> > changed semantics). The POSIX library will be fixed when 
> 4.1 final is 
> > out.
> 
> Has anyone implementated a thread library using the new 
> features of Lua 4.1?  It would be nice to see a sort of 
> "proof of concept", reference implementation that proves that 
> Lua 4.1 really does support thread libraries (without 
> modifying Lua source).  Perhaps adding Pthreads support to 
> the POSIX library would be a perfect place for such a thing.
> 
> Cheers,
> Eric
> 
> 
> 
> 
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