From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 17 19:48:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA08118 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:48:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA08113 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:48:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA01088; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:45:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812180345.TAA01088@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Richard Seaman, Jr." cc: "Mike Smith" , "Julian Elischer" , "current@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Linux Threads patches available In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Dec 1998 15:25:46 CST." <199812172125.PAA01921@ns.tar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:45:01 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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