From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 18 11:46:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA09229 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 11:46:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA09221 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 11:46:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.6/8.8.5) id NAA14849; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 13:46:13 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199708181846.NAA14849@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: The low priority items In-Reply-To: <87u3gnacj5.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> from stephen farrell at "Aug 18, 97 07:41:50 am" To: sfarrell@healthquiz.com (stephen farrell) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 13:46:13 -0500 (EST) Cc: perlsta@sunyit.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > last I heard john dyson was writing the package... but i'd be > interested in further status information myself. > The kernel now has full support (if you aren't using SMP), but I challenge anyone to use it (without my "secret" userland code :-)). If anyone wants a copy of the "secret" code to use the kernel threads capability, let me know. :-). There are still rough edges, but it does work. Sorry for the lame humor -- I'll probably put the code on a public site if I get enough requests. Otherwise, I'll put together a package for those who ask... John