From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 7 21:48:28 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA23701 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 21:48:28 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA23696 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 21:48:26 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA19303; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 22:44:16 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199511080544.WAA19303@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: ideas from netbsd To: cimaxp1!jb@werple.net.au (John Birrell) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 22:44:16 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org, jb@cimlogic.com.au In-Reply-To: <199511080508.QAA16175@werple.net.au> from "John Birrell" at Nov 8, 95 04:12:37 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 946 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >> My understanding of the way things are: > >> > >> NetBSD "thread environment" = CAP's pthreads code including CAP's > >> thread safe libc. > >> > >> FreeBSD "thread environment" = CAP's pthreads code including CAP's > >> thread safe libc. > > > > Your understanding is incorrect according to Julian's post under this > > same subject. > > Not it's not! What Julian mentioned is what _we_ are currently doing. > As far as 2.0 and 2.1 are concerned, pthreads is a port. > > For 2.2 I'm building a threaded libc here and feeding diffs to Julian for > inclusion in the main tree when appropriate. I'm still talking with CAP about > the integration of thread support in libc. This discussion includes Julian. I meant with regard to the NetBSD and FreeBSD sources both being based on CAP's libc code. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.