Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 14:56:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Mark Jaffe <mjaffe@rsv.ricoh.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Threads in 3.2? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909161453570.6392-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <37E16356.62F82477@rsv.ricoh.com>
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On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Mark Jaffe wrote: > Folks, > > Earlier this year, we needed to have a special module built for us by a > vendor, due to restrictions in FreeBSD 2.2.x's handling of threads. I am > not privy to all the details, but the upshot was that the vendor's > software, normally built thread-safe on other platforms, did not perform > well. Now we are finally moving forward to 3.2 and we need to find out > if threads are behaving themselves in this version. Anyone care to > comment? I would try out 3.3 for threads a few bugfixes have been put in as well as some performance improvements using wrappers around poll. As far as deficiencies in the threads library, the pthread_cancel stuff is still not available at this time. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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