From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 31 11:29:53 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA01248 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 11:29:53 -0800 Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA01240; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 11:29:44 -0800 Received: (from dfr@localhost) by nlsys.demon.co.uk (8.6.10/8.6.9) id VAA01244; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 21:27:25 +0100 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 21:27:24 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Dayton Clark , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-realtime@hda.com, proven@mit.edu, pschung@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu Subject: Re: Posix thread library In-Reply-To: <682.796513032@freefall.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 Mar 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Threads were available on FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 (libpthread). There was > > some talk a few months ago of bringing them (it?) up to Draft 8 and > > onto 2.0R. Has there been any progress? > > That's a good question! :-) > > Every USENIX I talk to the thread god (Chris Provenzano) about it, who > either says that something is imminent on this front or that we need > to decide whether or not we're going to go for a fully thread-safe > libc. The libc changes entail either a compile-time switch to enable > it or leaving it *always* on so that main() is just your first > autocreated thread. > > Either way, once we decide how we want it to go them we need to get > Chris or someone to finally bring the changes in. How important are > ptreads to folks? David, do you remember the conclusions we reached > when we last talked to Chris in N.O.? Did we reach any conclusions? :-) Well some of the Fresco demos only work with threads support... -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsys.demon.co.uk Phone: +44 181 951 1891