From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 18 07:07:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA17728 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 07:07:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.tar.com (ns.tar.com [204.95.187.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA17723 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 07:07:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@tar.com) Received: from ppro.tar.com (ppro.tar.com [204.95.187.9]) by ns.tar.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA10246; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 09:06:56 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from lists@tar.com) Message-Id: <199812181506.JAA10246@ns.tar.com> From: "Richard Seaman, Jr." To: "Mike Smith" Cc: "current@freebsd.org" , "Julian Elischer" Date: Fri, 18 Dec 98 09:06:56 -0600 Reply-To: "Richard Seaman, Jr." X-Mailer: PMMail 1.92 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Linux Threads patches available Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:45:01 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >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? Not that I know of. I coded the option as part of my initial debugging. I didn't want the original process stack to use the new code until I could try it out elsewhere. > > - Any reason (again for completeness) you couldn't add the remaining > syscalls you list in the sigsuspend.S change to the patch? No. I just haven't done the patches yet. They could easily be added later too. > - Any guesses at Alpha-related issues? No. I don't have an alpha machine and didn't really look. > >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? Learning how to really use cvs? :) Actually, the idea scares me a little. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message