From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 1 05:06:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA06280 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 05:06:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (ghpc8.ihf.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.90.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA06274 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 05:05:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thomas@ghpc8.ihf.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.90.6]) by ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id OAA18274; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 14:05:16 +0100 (CET) Received: (from thomas@localhost) by ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id OAA18482; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 14:05:15 +0100 (CET) To: Jacques Vidrine Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pthreads References: From: Thomas Gellekum Date: 01 Dec 1997 14:05:11 +0100 In-Reply-To: Jacques Vidrine's message of Sat, 29 Nov 1997 21:08:14 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <873ekdciyg.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.37/XEmacs 19.16 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jacques Vidrine writes: > Hi, > > Where can I find a status of pthread support for FreeBSD-current? I've > not had experience with them before, but I have attempted to compile > Python 1.5b1 with thread support, and the resulting application is not > stable (in particular I've had problems with signals and the thread APIs > themselves). Python-1.4 seems to work with threads, except for the signals. All the demos ran fine when I tested it. 1.5b1 is a different matter. There are some modules that break when you compile with thread support, like signal and fpectl. That's all I can say for now, I wanted to do some more tests in the next few days. tg