From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 10 7:52:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pop3.ids.net (pop3.ids.net [155.212.1.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A33E937B4C5 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 07:52:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from ids.net (dialup136f.egr-ri.ids.net [155.212.222.136]) by pop3.ids.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id eAAFqK924130; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 10:52:20 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A0C18BF.CCF0E5DB@ids.net> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 10:48:15 -0500 From: "Christopher M. Giordano" Reply-To: CGiordano@ids.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zero Sum Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uthread References: <0011110031570D.00417@shalimar.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Zero Sum wrote: > > Could someone let me know what that big uthread update was for ? That was a MFC of Dan Eischen's changes to the threads library for signal handling changes, performance enhancements (zero system call thread switching), bug fixes, and "other good stuff". Thread signal handling was previously severely borken. Read the commit logs for details. Hopefully, this will get a mention in the RELNOTES.TXT.... CGiordano@ids.net -- Lord, what fools these mortals be. -- A Midsummer Night's Dream To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message