From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 22 19: 1: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60A8314C23; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:01:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA01520; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:00:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:00:45 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199911230300.TAA01520@apollo.backplane.com> To: Jason Evans Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Threads and my new job. References: <19991122185220.D301@sturm.canonware.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :... :*) Make a real libpthread, rather than relying on the -pthread linker : magic. This is high on Daniel Eischen's wish list, so maybe he already : has something in the works. =) : :If you know of other outstanding issues that have a prayer of being :addressed before 4.0 ships, please speak up. : :Jason : :Jason Evans A natively implemented linux-compatible clone() call would be cool (rather then the one in the linux compatibility suite). Or if not that, then clib support for the equivalent of rfork(RFMEM|RFPROC) (currently C code will crash if it calls rfork() with RFMEM due to the new process not getting a new %esp). -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message