From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 30 5:16:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBBB614D80 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:16:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA05376 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 14:16:24 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA70162 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 14:16:24 +0100 (MET) Received: from test.tar.com (test.tar.com [204.95.187.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4572714D80 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:16:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dick@test.tar.com) Received: (from dick@localhost) by test.tar.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA11368; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 07:16:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dick) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 07:16:09 -0600 From: "Richard Seaman, Jr." To: Julian Elischer Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Revisitted.. Threads goals.? Message-ID: <19991130071609.J29767@tar.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 10:45:28PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > --------------------------- > COMMENTS: > > Peter made a valid point which is that maybe we should figure out > a waypoint between here and there, that gives us a working but > sub-optimal threads package of the order of the linux threads package, > that can be included in 4.0 > > We may have 2 whole months to get that done :-( [snip] > how would we move towards Peter's hope? and are there things we can do > that there is no argument about? I think that separating the proc > structure is agreed, but it is not needed for Linux threads.. I've attached a private email I sent to Jason Evans last week related to this subject: