Hi Paul,
> Thanks for implementing all this. Do you have an example of a package
> that uses this Gnulib module?
There probably are not many packages that use <threads.h> so far, because
even glibc did not have it until recently (2018-08-01).
And surely no packages use the Gnulib module so far, since I added it just
today :)
> I'm asking partly because I wonder whether coreutils, GNU Emacs, etc.
> would benefit from it
It depends on whether these packages
- are compiled and used on native Windows as well,
- and if so, whether the mingw pthreads are considered unsatisfying
or whether the use of the MSVC compiler is a requirement.
You can go a long way with <pthread.h>. I expect that <threads.h> will,
in the near future, only be important
- for portability to Windows,
- for new operating systems, especially small ones,
- for education in academics,
- for implementing C++ threads [1].
> and I'd like to see how others use it.
The use of <threads.h> is very similar to the use of <pthread.h>.
Bruno
[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread
