From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 10 14:57:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A83737C3D2 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:57:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA23075; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:29:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:29:37 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Matt Heckaman Cc: FreeBSD QUESTIONS Subject: Re: pthreads on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000310152937.K14279@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000310151001.I14279@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET on Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 05:53:05PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Matt Heckaman [000310 15:25] wrote: > 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. Isn't that what I just said? ~ % man pthread_cancel | head -3 PTHREAD_CANCEL(3) FreeBSD Library Functions Manual PTHREAD_CANCEL(3) ~ % uname -srvm FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE #0: Sun Feb 27 15:35:44 PST 2000 -Alfred > > 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] > : -- -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