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From: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
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Cc: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: CFT(2): patch for process shared pthread objects
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David Xu wrote:
> David Xu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I finally have worked out first patch to make our pthread library
>> support process shared pthread objects:
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~davidxu/pshared/patch1.diff
>>
> 
> Patch is updated:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~davidxu/pshared/patch2.diff
> 
> Changes:
> 1) Macro _POSIX_THREAD_PROCESS_SHARED in unistd.h is changed,
>    now its value is 200112L.
> 2) Version of libgcc is bumped.
> 3) Thread cancellation is fixed in pthread_cond_wait(), this
>    should make csup run again.
> 
>

I have updated patch again:
http://people.freebsd.org/~davidxu/pshared/patch6.diff

This time, process shared priority-inherit mutex is supported.
Now my machine is running with various threaded applications and
a gnome desktop, I have not found any problem.

I wish the patch can be committed before 9.0 release. :-)

Regards,
David Xu