From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 10 14:53:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.uunet.ca (mail5.uunet.ca [142.77.1.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E7E237BB0B for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:53:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET) Received: from epsilon.lucida.qc.ca ([216.95.146.6]) by mail5.uunet.ca with ESMTP id <234402-13132>; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:55:12 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:53:05 -0500 From: Matt Heckaman X-Sender: matt@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: FreeBSD QUESTIONS Subject: Re: pthreads on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20000310151001.I14279@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I'm currently using 3.4-STABLE (Jan 02 2000), upgrade to current is not an option due to the production nature of the machine. Have such things been put into later versions of 3.4-STABLE? Thanks, I appreciate the advice. Matt -- Matt Heckaman [matt@arpa.mail.net|matt@relic.net] [Please do not send me] !Powered by FreeBSD/x86! [http://www.freebsd.org] [any SPAM (UCE) e-mail] On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: : Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:10:01 -0500 : From: Alfred Perlstein : To: Matt Heckaman : Cc: FreeBSD QUESTIONS : Subject: Re: pthreads on FreeBSD : : * Matt Heckaman [000310 14:56] wrote: : > On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: : > [...] : > : Can you be more specific? What's missing? : > : > pthread_cancel is missing for one, to be more specific though is difficult : > for me, I'm not a programmer of any talent. We do have one critical : > application that uses ACE & pthread, it compiles fine - then chokes when : > it runs, more specifically, anything that uses the threads does not : > function. We do know that it works on Solaris & Linux though, neither OS : > am I familiar with on that level though. : : You'll want to upgrade to FreeBSD-stable or even FreeBSD-current : to get recent pthread additions and fixes (which include pthread_cancel : functionality), please see: : http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cutting-edge.html : : for upgrade directions, either that or install a -stable or -current : "SNAP" from the ftp sites. : : thanks, : -- : -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message