From owner-freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 01:43:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C97516A4CE; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 01:43:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from silver.he.iki.fi (helenius.fi [193.64.42.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42BD343D3F; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 01:43:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pete@he.iki.fi) Received: from he.iki.fi (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by silver.he.iki.fi (8.12.9p2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id i089hSgr068863; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:43:29 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from pete@he.iki.fi) Message-ID: <3FFD2611.8020206@he.iki.fi> Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 11:42:41 +0200 From: Petri Helenius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ryan Sommers References: <1073527914.650.41.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1073527914.650.41.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Robert Watson cc: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Release criteria for libkse -> libpthread switch? X-BeenThere: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Threading on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 09:43:33 -0000 Ryan Sommers wrote: >My only concern with this is that it might cause some sort of delay in >getting to 5-STABLE. I think, as I'm sure most would agree, that >achieving a 5-STABLE is the next major milestone for the project. One >that, from the lists, some think is somewhat overdue. > > > The same can be said for M:N threads, they are overdue too and since kse works well with a few signal handling related exceptions, I think the general experience would be significantly improved by retiring current userland thread library. Pete