Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:45:01 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Richard Seaman, Jr." <lists@tar.com> Cc: "Mike Smith" <mike@smith.net.au>, "Julian Elischer" <julian@whistle.com>, "current@freebsd.org" <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Linux Threads patches available Message-ID: <199812180345.TAA01088@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Dec 1998 15:25:46 CST." <199812172125.PAA01921@ns.tar.com>
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> On Wed, 16 Dec 1998 03:41:59 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > >I've had a (quick) look at your current webpage; thanks for collecting > >all this in one place. Would you care to summarise the changes in a > >little more detail, and perhaps sort them into 'non-intrusive' and > >'intrusive' groups so that we can commit the first set and do whatever > >needs to be done to resolve any problems with the second ASAP? > > I've added a summary at http://lt.tar.com/patchsum.html. I can > send to you if its inconvenient to read it there. I thought it was > a little long to post to this list, but it could be done if someone > wants it that way. Thanks again for the summary; it's made the situation fairly clear. >From my first reading, a couple of questions: - Completeness would suggest that you should use vm_map_stack for the "original" process stack as well as for subsequent thread stacks. Is there a counter-argument? - Any reason (again for completeness) you couldn't add the remaining syscalls you list in the sigsuspend.S change to the patch? - Any guesses at Alpha-related issues? And one finally, presuming you're interested in pursuing this sort of thing further (we'd like that I expect): - Any reason you don't want to become a committer? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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