From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 22 12:28:15 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06509 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:28:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA06500 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:28:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA11494; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 15:34:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 15:34:06 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: "Richard Seaman, Jr." cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using LinuxThreads In-Reply-To: <19990122135521.J92540@tar.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: > > *confused look* > > > > somehow even though i've been trying to follow this thread i got lost. > > > > questions: > > 1) are 'linuxthreads' enabled by defualt now? > > The terminology is a little confusing. There's "linuxthreads" for those > running linux apps in FreeBSD using the linux emulation modules. Then, > there's a port of linuxthreads to FreeBSD which runs natively, ie. no > linux emulation, and gives 1-1 kernel threading to apps that link to > it. > > Both require some options to be turned on for kernel/world builds that > are not on by default. (see http://lt.tar.com) Julian Elischer has > agreed to commit the patches to remove the options and make the code > change permanent, when I send him the patches. I'll send him the patches > as soon as I can test them after a "make world", which I'll do as soon > as the libcrypt build problems are fixed. awesome, btw, it seems that make world is also broken on libkvm. > > 3) when it's decided can someone explain how to use this stuff nativly? > > See http://lt.tar.com . I also have some patches for squid, glib and I'm > working on gimp to compile using the FreeBSD port of linuxthreads. Others > have had success in varying degress with NSPR (mozilla), ACE and others. will do. > > -- > Richard Seamman, Jr. email: dick@tar.com > 5182 N. Maple Lane phone: 414-367-5450 > Chenequa WI 53058 fax: 414-367-5852 > Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 4.0-current To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message