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Re: Context switching woes



Mark Collins wrote:

> Did anyone see a horned guy skiing to work today, because the guy at
> Microsoft decided to find the pthreads functions I'm looking for, to help me
> get a Linux version done...

LOL!

> Out of curiosity, I did some checking. With pthreads, there is a mutex
> object (there is no special critical section object), which you access
> using:

These are a better idea than critical sections. Protect the scenegraph
with a mutex and use it properly (I'm not saying this is easy, you ARE
using threads!).

-- 
"The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more expected."
 -- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972

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