Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 07:02:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au (Daniel O'Connor) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu Subject: Re: Thread calls Message-ID: <199809020702.AAA21352@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980902111338.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> from "Daniel O'Connor" at Sep 2, 98 11:13:38 am
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> > > the PMPTHREADS package (http://www.humanfactor.com/pthreads/) has > > > the pthread_setcancelstate(), pthread_setcanceltype(), and > > > pthread_testcancel() routines you require. > > > > But will require hacking to integrate into libc_r such that system > > call reentrancy is handled correctly. > > > > This is the problem with third party user space threading packages. > > > > Better to just add the code to FreeBSD. > > Well.. I was just asking if anyone was actually doing this or not =) > I did try the thrid party pthreads thing but it doesn't like -current, and then > I realised I'd have to recompile a few things (like X.. again) to use it. > > So, from what I hear, noone is implementing these calls in FreeBSD's libc_r? There is an OpenLDAP effort, which will necessitate these calls being implemented and/or the PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER going away until FreeBSD complies with Draft 10 (Standard) pthreads. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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