From owner-freebsd-java Mon May 29 9:20:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mimer.webgiro.com [212.209.29.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A29DF37BC5F for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 09:20:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id A8DD12DC0A; Mon, 29 May 2000 18:26:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 092DC7817; Mon, 29 May 2000 18:15:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06F6610E17; Mon, 29 May 2000 18:15:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 18:15:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Doug Rabson Cc: Greg Lewis , freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel threads (RE: alphaworks 1.3 linux port) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 29 May 2000, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Sun, 28 May 2000, Greg Lewis wrote: > > > Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > > > > As I wrote about two weeks ago, I tried to get it running on > > > > > relatively up-to-date 5.0-CURRENT. Alphaworks JVM uses native threads on > > > > > Linux, which (as far as I understand) are impossible to have right now, > > > > > either under Linux emulation or otherwise. > > > > > > > > /usr/ports/devel/linuxthreads? > > > > > > Sure. Have you got the sources for their JVM? > > > > > > :-) > > > > If I did, I'd be porting them to FreeBSD ;). I thought this port might > > allow the running of apps with use Linux threads, and the description > > didn't disabuse me of this notion so I thought I'd point it out. > > Even without this port, Linux programs using linuxthreads will work fine > under emulation. Hmm... Then either IBM doesn't use them, or they do things a bit too differently for our emulator... Would you mind taking a look at it, and make an educated guess what needs to be fixed in order to get it working? Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message