From owner-freebsd-java Wed Aug 15 10:30:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wrs.com (unknown-1-11.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00BB237B412 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:30:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@[147.11.46.201]) by mail.wrs.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA12639; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:30:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9EC5@l04.research.kpn.com> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:30:14 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: "Koster, K.J." Subject: RE: java status and Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org, Jev Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 15-Aug-01 Koster, K.J. wrote: >> > The FreeBSD 4.x kernel has no kernel threads. The JDKs rely >> > on kernel threads >> >> Does -CURRENT have threads? >> > Ah, yes. I intended to mention this, but I forgot. Sorry. FreeBSD 5.0 will > have kernel threads. Needless to say that the usual disclaimers apply about > newfangled stuff. I think the Java port will be a good test case for FreeBSD > kernel threading implementation. :-) 5.0 _may_ have kernel threads. It is yet to be seen if KSE will be done in time for 5.0. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message