[Info-vax] pthread_kill() replacement for VMS?

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Thursday, 27 July 2017 13:59:52 UTC+1, John E. Malmberg  wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> One of the gnulib tests is doing a pthread_kill call which does not 
> exist on VMS.
> 
> Is there a quick fix to create such a routine?
> 
> Regards,
> -John

Eric W Robertson (?) made similar inquiries in comp.os.vms 
(wrt gnulib) in 2013. Don't know if they led anywwhere in 
private but they didn't go far in comp.os.vms.

Here's a snippet:

"I was looking to take a gander at some of the core pthread 
API functions to see how difficult implementing the pthread_kill() 
and pthread_sigmask() routines would be for OpenVMS. For some 
reason these functions are only implemented for Tru64 and not 
for OpenVMS. These thread functions are referenced by a couple 
of Open Source Projects. I was attempting to survey the work 
required to implement these functions (missing on OpenVMS) to 
supplement the existing OpenVMS pthread RTL as I a believe 
that these functions should not be terrifically difficult to 
implement."

Best of luck.