From owner-freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 26 00:38:56 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB35E16A419 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:38:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.org) Received: from dragon.nuxi.org (trang.nuxi.org [74.95.12.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8917B13C474 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:38:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.org) Received: from dragon.nuxi.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l8Q0cnWZ057205; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:38:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.org (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l8Q0cmQT057204; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:38:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:38:48 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: d@delphij.net Message-ID: <20070926003848.GA56318@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <20070926002038.GA56119@dragon.NUXI.org> <46F9A764.6000008@delphij.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46F9A764.6000008@delphij.net> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Renaming our threads libs X-BeenThere: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Threading on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:38:56 -0000 On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 05:27:16PM -0700, LI Xin wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > > We have little time before 7.0-RELEASE to get this right.. > > > > For consistency and expectations from users (especially of other OS's), > > should we ask RE@ to rename libpthread to libkse (or whatever) and rename > > libthr to libpthread? Remember - what we release 7.0 will be burned into > > folks Makefile's and vernacular. > > Do you mean repocopy from src/lib/libpthread -> src/lib/libkse? Because > libpthread.so.X is now installed as a symbolic link to actual default > threading library I think it would be an overkill to rename libthr to > libpthread, I think it is most clear when the name of the object someone wants (in this case they call by the name libpthread) lives in src/lib/libpthread. We've done a pretty good job in the BSD code tree of keeping things clean like this. Don't want to loose what I see as some of the value of BSD developing. Also renaming libthr to libpthread reduces confusion in say the output of 'ldd /usr/bin/csup'. > but to reduce confusion it might be better to rename > lib/libpthread to lib/libkse. Yes that at a mininum. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is top-posting (putting a reply at the top of the message) frowned upon? Let's not play "Jeopardy-style quoting"