From owner-java@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 18 11:49:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA17025 for java-outgoing; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 11:49:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA17010 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 11:49:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jb@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA09837; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 06:52:33 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199712181952.GAA09837@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: Goals for the JDK port In-Reply-To: <97Dec18.125919est.18514@smtorfw001.Scotia-McLeod.com> from Alex Ching-Yuen Wong at "Dec 18, 97 12:51:43 pm" To: Alex_Wong@Scotiamarkets.com (Alex Ching-Yuen Wong) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 06:52:32 +1100 (EST) Cc: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, grail@functional.com, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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