From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 1 18:44:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA10036 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 18:44:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA10012 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 18:44:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA14876; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 11:13:38 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199809020016.RAA08412@usr01.primenet.com> Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 11:13:38 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: Thread calls Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, (Mark Tinguely) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 02-Sep-98 Terry Lambert wrote: > > 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. Well.. I was just asking if anyone was actually doing this or not =) I did try the thrid party pthreads thing but it doesn't like -current, and then I realised I'd have to recompile a few things (like X.. again) to use it. So, from what I hear, noone is implementing these calls in FreeBSD's libc_r? --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message