From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 16 17:18:06 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA00378 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 17:18:06 -0700 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA00350 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 17:17:59 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id QAA09567 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 16:57:47 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA25790; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 16:52:02 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199510162352.QAA25790@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: NetBSD/FreeBSD To: chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu (Charles Kenneth Green - PRC) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 16:52:02 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510161329.JAA18504@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> from "Charles Kenneth Green - PRC" at Oct 16, 95 09:29:43 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 711 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Looking at the possibility of adding POSIX threads to FreeBSD, I > found a group at MIT that has added POSIX threads to netbsd-1.0. I know > that both systems have thier roots in the 4.4-lite distribution but just > how much different are they now? Does this seem like a viable place to > begin from in order to accomplish this task? This would be pthreads. It already exists for FreeBSD. The implemenatations aren't very different at the user space level, so porting something like that is no effort. I still believe pthreads is insufficient for HotJava. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.