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Add dummy_thread[ing] sections and reference these from libthread[ing].
author Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
date Mon, 30 Dec 2002 22:34:10 +0000
parents 8d44d614941d
children 3bc2af41c016
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--- a/Doc/lib/libthread.tex	Mon Dec 30 22:30:22 2002 +0000
+++ b/Doc/lib/libthread.tex	Mon Dec 30 22:34:10 2002 +0000
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@
 
 The module is optional.  It is supported on Windows, Linux, SGI
 IRIX, Solaris 2.x, as well as on systems that have a \POSIX{} thread
-(a.k.a. ``pthread'') implementation.
+(a.k.a. ``pthread'') implementation.  For systems lacking the \module{thread}
+module, the \refmodule{dummy_thread} module is available.  It duplicates this
+module's interface and can be used as a drop-in replacement.
 \index{pthreads}
 \indexii{threads}{\POSIX}