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From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
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To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, "Richard Seaman, Jr." <dick@tar.com>,
        Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG,
        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Subject: Re: Using LinuxThreads
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On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote:
> > 
> > > > And when are COMPAT_LINUX_THREADS and VM_STACK going away?
> > > 
> > > I have no idea.  I was hoping that at least COMPAT_LINUX_THREADS
> > > would go away before the branch.  I don't have commit authority,
> > > so it isn't up to me.
> > > 
> > 
> > hmm did you send me the patches?
> > 
> > I can certainly do it now..(given a patch set to apply)
> > 
> > I just realised however, that if we make them go away we break 
> > SMP right? 
> > hmm I guess we only break it for programs that woudltry use it
> > which should be none if you run SMP :-)
> 
> It doesn't break SMP (I'm running an SMP kernel with
> COMPAT_LINUX_THREADS).  All that happens is that linux_clone() returns
> an error.  Surprisingly StarOffice still works fairly well.

StarOffice 5.0? Is this with Luoqi's shared process across SMP patches?

> 
> --
> Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
> Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037
> 
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