From owner-freebsd-java Mon May 29 10: 3: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net (finch-post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BD1437BCAC for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 10:02:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@calcaphon.com) Received: from calcaphon.demon.co.uk ([193.237.19.5] helo=bluebottle.qubesoft.com) by finch-post-12.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12wSwG-000Pxk-0C; Mon, 29 May 2000 17:02:52 +0000 Received: from doug02.qubesoft.com (doug02.qubesoft.com [192.168.1.4]) by bluebottle.qubesoft.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA19039; Mon, 29 May 2000 18:03:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@calcaphon.com) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 18:02:49 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson X-Sender: dfr@doug02.qubesoft.com To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: Greg Lewis , freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel threads (RE: alphaworks 1.3 linux port) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 29 May 2000, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Mon, 29 May 2000, Doug Rabson wrote: > > > On Sun, 28 May 2000, Greg Lewis wrote: > > > > > Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > > > > > As I wrote about two weeks ago, I tried to get it running on > > > > > > relatively up-to-date 5.0-CURRENT. Alphaworks JVM uses native threads on > > > > > > Linux, which (as far as I understand) are impossible to have right now, > > > > > > either under Linux emulation or otherwise. > > > > > > > > > > /usr/ports/devel/linuxthreads? > > > > > > > > Sure. Have you got the sources for their JVM? > > > > > > > > :-) > > > > > > If I did, I'd be porting them to FreeBSD ;). I thought this port might > > > allow the running of apps with use Linux threads, and the description > > > didn't disabuse me of this notion so I thought I'd point it out. > > > > Even without this port, Linux programs using linuxthreads will work fine > > under emulation. > > Hmm... Then either IBM doesn't use them, or they do things a bit too > differently for our emulator... Would you mind taking a look at it, and > make an educated guess what needs to be fixed in order to get it working? I don't have time right now to debug this. You might try one of the thread expers (jasone, deischen). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@calcaphon.com Technical Director, Qube Software Ltd. Phone: +44 20 7431 9995 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message