2000-04-08 Andreas Kupries <a.kupries@westend.com>

	* Overall change: Definition of a public API for the creation of
	  new threads.

	* generic/tclInt.h (line 1802f): Removed the definition of
	'TclpThreadCreate'. (line 793f) Removed the definition of
	'Tcl_ThreadCreateProc'.

	* generic/tcl.h (line 388f): Readded the definition of
	  'Tcl_ThreadCreateProc'. Added Win32 stuff send in by David
	  Graveraux <davygrvy@bigfoot.com> to that too (__stdcall,
	  ...). Added macros for the default stacksize and allowed flags.

	* generic/tcl.decls (line 1356f): Added definition of
	  'Tcl_CreateThread', slot 393 of the stub table. Two new
	  arguments in the public API, for stacksize and flags.

	* win/tclWinThrd.c:
	* mac/tclMacThrd.c: Renamed TclpThreadCreate to Tcl_CreateThread,
	  added handling of the stacksize. Flags are currently ignored.

	* unix/tclUnixThrd.c: See above, but handles joinable
	  flag. Ignores the specified stacksize if the macro
	  HAVE_PTHREAD_ATTR_SETSTACKSIZE is not defined.

	* generic/tclThreadTest.c (line 363): See below.

	* unix/tclUnixNotfy.c (line 210): Adapted to the changes
	  above. Uses default stacksize and no flags now.

	* unic/tcl.m4 (line 382f): Added a check for
	  'pthread_attr_setstacksize' to detect platforms not implementing
	  this feature of pthreads. If it is implemented, configure will
	  define the macro HAVE_PTHREAD_ATTR_SETSTACKSIZE (See
	  unix/tclUnixThrd.c too).

	* doc/Thread.3: Added Tcl_CreateThread and its arguments to the
	  list of described functions. Removed stuff about not providing a
	  public C-API for thread-creation.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/unix/tclUnixNotfy.c b/unix/tclUnixNotfy.c
index 5098f93..7d63228 100644
--- a/unix/tclUnixNotfy.c
+++ b/unix/tclUnixNotfy.c
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
  * See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
  * of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
  *
- * RCS: @(#) $Id: tclUnixNotfy.c,v 1.8 2000/04/04 20:28:43 kupries Exp $
+ * RCS: @(#) $Id: tclUnixNotfy.c,v 1.9 2000/04/09 16:04:20 kupries Exp $
  */
 
 #include "tclInt.h"
@@ -207,8 +207,8 @@ Tcl_InitNotifier()
 
     Tcl_MutexLock(&notifierMutex);
     if (notifierCount == 0) {
-	if (TclpThreadCreate(&notifierThread, NotifierThreadProc, NULL)
-		!= TCL_OK) {
+	if (Tcl_CreateThread(&notifierThread, NotifierThreadProc, NULL,
+		     TCL_THREAD_STACK_DEFAULT, TCL_THREAD_NOFLAGS) != TCL_OK) {
 	    panic("Tcl_InitNotifier: unable to start notifier thread");
 	}
     }