From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 1 15:00:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA13311 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 15:00:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA13187 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 14:59:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA10855; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 08:07:44 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199810012207.IAA10855@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: Threading man pages. In-Reply-To: <19981001175036.B228@kublai.com> from Brian Cully at "Oct 1, 98 05:50:36 pm" To: shmit@kublai.com Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 08:07:41 +1000 (EST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Cully wrote: > On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 07:36:01AM +1000, John Birrell wrote: > > What problems? > > Signal handling still appears broken from what I can tell (this is > after the commit you did with Daniel Eischen's patches). I was > under the assumption that you were still working on it. :-/ That is/was specific to sigwait() and shouldn't be generalized to "signal handling" in general. FWIW, Daniel is one of just a few people who actively contribute to this stuff. > Should I take this to mean that as far as everybody's concerned > the thread code is `commercial quality' (as the term is used by the > FreeBSD project in its mission statement). I use it commercially. I have products that use libc_r exclusively, even for non-threaded applications. I don't claim that libc_r contains fully re-entrant functions. Much of libc needs to be re-written to provide this. The number of global and static variables is a pain. > > So I should go ahead and do some man page frobbing? I'm not sure exactly what you're going to frob. Do you have a copy of the POSIX standard to refer to? Remember that POSIX makes a lot of things optional. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message