Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 06:52:32 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> To: Alex_Wong@Scotiamarkets.com (Alex Ching-Yuen Wong) Cc: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, grail@functional.com, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Goals for the JDK port Message-ID: <199712181952.GAA09837@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <97Dec18.125919est.18514@smtorfw001.Scotia-McLeod.com> from Alex Ching-Yuen Wong at "Dec 18, 97 12:51:43 pm"
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Alex Ching-Yuen Wong wrote: > 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. That is being worked on right *now*. There is some VM work that John Dyson is going to do that will allow it to happen. Then there will be a libpthread (and libc_r will die, along with all the non-blocking file descriptor problems that has). The kernel threads will support thread suspend/resume (as an extension to POSIX) and thread start suspended like java requires. > > -- > cywong@BSD.dyn.ml.org > Regards, -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@netbsd.org; jb@freebsd.org CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137
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