[Openvpn-devel] Re: [Openvpn-users] Pthreads on Windows

[Gisle V. <gv...@br...>]

"James Yonan" <ji...@yo...> said:

> Pthreads doesn't work on Windows.  Windows has its own threading model and is
> incompatible with pthreads.

Not so. There is pthread-win32 at
http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/

I've successfully used it in libpcap etc. But OpenVPN uses native
Windows calls, so using pthreads-win32 would add unneeded overhead
(allthough very little).

--gv