From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 15 04:23:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA22576 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 04:23:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au ([203.36.2.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA22570; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 04:22:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jb@localhost) by freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA02342; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:24:14 GMT From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199709152124.VAA02342@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: What is wrong with this snipet? In-Reply-To: <199709141527.KAA00185@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at "Sep 14, 97 10:27:52 am" To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:24:13 +0000 (GMT) Cc: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John S. Dyson wrote: > We are going to be supporting a super efficient threads scheme that uses > the RFMEM capability. Sample code to use RFMEM is available upon request. > It is already being used in commercial multi-threaded applications, but > isn't ready for inclusion in FreeBSD (yet), due to a lack of more general > userland support. RFMEM supports full address space sharing in FreeBSD, > and it is a bug otherwise (whomever implemented it first.) Excuse my ignorance, I'm a bit out of touch, but is your RFMEM work in the kernel ready to support a threaded libc? If so, that is good news! > > -- > John > dyson@freebsd.org > jdyson@nc.com Regards, -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@netbsd.org; jb@freebsd.org CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137