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Date:      Fri, 22 Jan 1999 05:08:11 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        "Richard Seaman, Jr." <dick@tar.com>, Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Using LinuxThreads 
Message-ID:  <199901212108.FAA27978@spinner.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:22:17 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.990121121926.12406A-100000@current1.whistle.com> 

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Julian Elischer wrote:
[..]
> > > I just realised however, that if we make them go away we break 
> > > SMP right? 
> > 
> > No. I don't think the patches affect SMP one way or the other.
> > If someone tries to run kernel threads of any kind (linuxthreads
> > in emulation, linuxthread in FreeBSD native, any other kernel
> > threads implementation that uses rfork with RFMEM) rfork will
> > fail, with or without the patches (unless you apply Luoqi Chen's
> > pmap patches).
> > 
> > I see no reason the patches shouldn't work with SMP when rfork
> > gets fixed, but I haven't tried it.
> 
> ok send them and I'll commit
> 
> julian

Wait a day or two for the VM dust to settle otherwise there will be no 
telling which set of code is causing problems.

The POSIX options probably need to go on with this or there isn't much
point doing it since it's part of what the linux threads package calls.

Cheers,
-Peter



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