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

[John Reagan]

On Friday, July 28, 2017 at 10:58:53 AM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2017-07-28 00:18:07 +0000, David Froble said:
> 
> > Well, I guess that would depend on the multi-tasking being performed, 
> > and such.   Sure, an OS provides for multiple processes.  However, a 
> > single process may need to control and coordinate multiple "things".
> 
> Distributed job schedulers have made that effort easier, and with less 
> bespoke code necessary.   DLM and termination mailboxes and TCP and the 
> queue manager are all good tools and can be useful here, but adapting 
> those pieces and frameworks to scheduling is a fair amount of bespoke 
> code.  But processes and process scheduling and distributed schedulers 
> are different from threading, and threading is something that really 
> doesn't exist in BASIC short of KP Threads or such.  I've yet to 
> encounter threaded BASIC code.   Lots of AST-based code and 
> multiple-process code written in BASIC certainly, but not threading.
> 

The BASIC RTL is not thread-safe.  There is something in the BASIC release notes about it.  I don't think the COBOL RTL is thread safe either.  I don't about Fortran.  I know the Pascal RTL IS thread safe since I did that work and I know a few Pascal customers that use threading with Pascal.