From owner-freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 11 03:30:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5776D16A4CE for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 03:30:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B11143FE1 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 03:30:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mail.pcnet.com (8.12.10/8.12.1) with ESMTP id hABBUO1G005654; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 06:30:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 06:30:24 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen X-Sender: eischen@pcnet5.pcnet.com To: Chris Knight In-Reply-To: <00f801c3a81c$540266a0$030aa8c0@corp.eeasy.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Comments about FreeBSD threading from Apache people X-BeenThere: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Threading on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:30:38 -0000 On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Chris Knight wrote: > Howdy, > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Daniel Eischen [mailto:eischen@vigrid.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, 11 November 2003 12:15 > > To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: Comments about FreeBSD threading from Apache people > > > > > > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:56:41AM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > > There's not enough info in STATUS to go on, and in any case it is > > > > written against libc_r. Tell them about > > libpthread^Wlibkse. David > > > > Xu has tested apache with threading enabled. > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Here is more feedback from the Apache > > > people. It might be worth > > > taking their experiences into account... > > > > Have you tried this with libkse? > > > > I don't care about libc_r; it's being deprecated. ^^^^^ It isn't gone yet, and will be around through the life of 5.x I'd guess. > Except you need a production-ready release before you can deprecate it. > Which means a working threads-capable version of Apache on FreeBSD is still > 9+ months away :-( It doesn't help when the re team suggest via the > Announcement e-mails that the current production-ready release is still > 4.8... > If you want libc_r deprecated sooner, get /etc/libmap.conf installed, > defaulting libc_r to libkse. Most people (including me), just use the > defaults. I've just found libmap.conf by chance, while trying to resolve a > build issue on a program that uses pthread_spinlock_* and POSIX semaphore > calls. You'd have more testers that way too. Something like this is under consideration for 5.2. -- Dan Eischen