From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 7 21:45:11 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA23578 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 21:45:11 -0800 Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (sri.MT.net [204.94.231.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA23570 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 21:45:07 -0800 Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA27991; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 22:47:15 -0700 Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 22:47:15 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199511080547.WAA27991@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Terry Lambert Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), nate@rocky.sri.MT.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ideas from netbsd In-Reply-To: <199511080537.WAA19254@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <2626.815804322@time.cdrom.com> <199511080537.WAA19254@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert writes: > Building a FreeBSD thread-safe library gives you a thread-safe library. > > Taking NetBSD's work after it's done gives you a thread-safe library. > > I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to see the duplication of > effort in doing the same thing twice. ;-). But the work in NetBSD isn't related to NetBSD. It's work that CAP has done for either group, so we're just bringing in the outside work in the same manner as NetBSD did. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that there's more chance for errors getting the work second-hand when you can get it first-hand. *grin* Nate