From owner-java@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 18 10:03:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA08662 for java-outgoing; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 10:03:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Scotia-McLeod.com ([207.81.68.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA08629 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 10:03:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Alex_Wong@Scotiamarkets.com) Received: by smtorfw001.Scotia-McLeod.com id <18514>; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 12:59:19 -0500 Message-Id: <97Dec18.125919est.18514@smtorfw001.Scotia-McLeod.com> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 12:51:43 -0500 From: Alex Ching-Yuen Wong Organization: Scotia Capital Markets X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Kelly CC: Giao Nguyen , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Goals for the JDK port References: <3.0.3.32.19971212191058.00900dd0@hyperreal.org> <3.0.3.32.19971215152125.009835f0@hyperreal.org> <19971215185751.63790@functional.com> <34995930.38AB7D3@fsl.noaa.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Sean Kelly wrote: > Could we do something with native threads, for example? Or modify the > kernel to have an execution model for .class files? However, support for kernel level threads won't be available till the 3.0-RELEASE, which is not supposed to show up at least by Q3 of 98. I am not sure about the -current branch, maybe they have some kinda alpha support on threads. -- cywong@BSD.dyn.ml.org