some threads background

[Hoehle, Joerg-C. <Joe...@t-...>]

Hi,

maybe that could help anybody interested in threads for clisp

I found a very nice paper from Ralf S. Engelschall: Portable
multithreading about threads, user space, signal handling,
sigaltstack(), makecontext() and related functions.  Knowing it would
have helped me last year when I debugged libsigsegv (e.g. there are some
unices do not like longjmp() out of signal handlers, which IIRC clisp
does, etc.).

www.xmailserver.org/libpcl.html
www.xmailserver.org/rse-pmt.pdf
www.gnu.org/software/pth/

(no, I'm not working on threads).

Regards,
	Jorg Hohle.