From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 1 17:17:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA25310 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:17:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25305 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:17:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA25837; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:16:11 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd025800; Tue Sep 1 17:16:07 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA08412; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:16:03 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809020016.RAA08412@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Thread calls To: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 00:16:03 +0000 (GMT) Cc: doconnor@gsoft.com.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199809011323.IAA31017@plains.NoDak.edu> from "Mark Tinguely" at Sep 1, 98 08:23:42 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > the PMPTHREADS package (http://www.humanfactor.com/pthreads/) has > the pthread_setcancelstate(), pthread_setcanceltype(), and > pthread_testcancel() routines you require. But will require hacking to integrate into libc_r such that system call reentrancy is handled correctly. This is the problem with third party user space threading packages. Better to just add the code to FreeBSD. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message