From owner-freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 26 00:20:39 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 551DF16A479 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:20:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.org) Received: from dragon.nuxi.org (trang.nuxi.org [74.95.12.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D90913C4AA for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:20:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.org) Received: from dragon.nuxi.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l8Q0KcvL056156 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:20:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.org (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l8Q0KcmA056155 for freebsd-threads@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:20:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:20:38 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070926002038.GA56119@dragon.NUXI.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Subject: Renaming our threads libs X-BeenThere: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Threading on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:20:39 -0000 We have little time before 7.0-RELEASE to get this right.. For consistency and expectations from users (especially of other OS's), should we ask RE@ to rename libpthread to libkse (or whatever) and rename libthr to libpthread? Remember - what we release 7.0 will be burned into folks Makefile's and vernacular. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is top-posting (putting a reply at the top of the message) frowned upon? Let's not play "Jeopardy-style quoting"