From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jan 19 21:25:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63E6537B69B for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 21:25:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.wemm.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0K5P4k31887 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 21:25:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200101200525.f0K5P4k31887@mobile.wemm.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request For Review: libc/libc_r changes to allow -lc_r In-Reply-To: <3A68DDE8.7F8D3C51@vigrid.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 21:25:04 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel Eischen wrote: > [ Followups to -arch only please ] > > I've got some changes to libc and libc_r that I'd like reviewed. > These changes eliminate the _THREAD_SAFE macro and allow a libc > and libc_r that can be linked together via -lc_r. This also means > that -pthread and -D_THREAD_SAFE can be deprecated. Note that > libc_r could be now be renamed libpthread, but I would like to > reserve that for KSE Project development where we might want to > have both libraries around while libpthread (using KSEs) is being > developed. > > The diffs are posted at: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/libc.diffs > http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/libc_r.diffs ... > Comments welcome, Wow! This is seriously overdue and desperately needed! Great stuff! Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message