From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 22 16:51:53 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA13068 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 16:51:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA13063 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 16:51:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA65352; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 00:50:38 GMT Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 00:50:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Brian Feldman cc: Julian Elischer , "Richard Seaman, Jr." , Jeremy Lea , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm Subject: Re: Using LinuxThreads In-Reply-To: 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, Brian Feldman wrote: > 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? I don't have Luoqi's patches. StarOffice seems to work even if there is no thread support. Wierd. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message