Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 20:56:27 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: threads.... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911132053520.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911132002210.64251-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > > Here's a perfect example of when threads matter.. i want the newest > > version of Licq. The newest, with all recent fixes, is 0.71. But i > > have to DL 0.61 because after that they became THREADED! I hope we have > > threads (kernel) soon. > > We already have threads. How exactly does licq (an ICQ client) rely on > kernel-supported threads (only needed for some level of SMP scalability?) The problem is that we require pthread_cancel for Licq to work, I ported it over from OpenBSD a while back and handed it over to the thread guru Daniel E, he's cleaned up a few rough edges and plans on integrating it soon. why a chat client needs to be multithreaded especially using dangerous thread functions (pthread_cancel) is beyond me... but then again, everything is automagically faster/better with threads right? :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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