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Date:      Wed, 15 Aug 2001 14:07:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG, Jev <jev@ecad.org>
Subject:   RE: java status and
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010815135634.23859A@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010815103014.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> 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.

I doubt we'll have time to write the userland parts of a KSE-based
threading library in time for 5.0 (this fall, right?).  Hopefully
Julian will get the kernel parts done in time for 5.0.

-- 
Dan Eischen

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