From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 2 10:15:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61AC837B401 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 10:15:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: (from eischen@localhost) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id NAA22964; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:14:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:14:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen To: "Schmalzbauer, Harald" Cc: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: pthreads bug? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Schmalzbauer, Harald wrote: > Hallo all, > > from http://news.gnome.org/996675873/ I read: > > "Chris Toshok, one of the Evolution developers, used to develop on FreeBSD > up until a few weeks ago because of a bug in FreeBSD's pthreads > implementation that caused problems. So you see, this isn't a fault of > Evolution, it's a fault of FreeBSD." > > Redradibly I'm no programmer so I don't know anything about "pthreads". I'd > like to know if this is a known bug and if so when this could be fixed. > Or is this statment nonsens? There's probably bugs lingering in most of our code somewhere, userland and kernel. I think I'll stop developing for FreeBSD and try another OS. Seriously, what bug? There doesn't seem to be a PR from Toshok in our GNATS PR system. I don't recall seeing anything from him in the mailing lists. Perhaps if I knew where he lived I could have a better chance of homing in on his brainwaves; I'm just a beginner at this mind-reading thing. -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message