From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 14 01:23:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA25819 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 01:23:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from melb.werple.net.au (melb.werple.net.au [203.9.190.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA25803 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 01:23:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.6/8.7.3/2) with UUCP id SAA09843; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:05:36 +1100 (EST) Received: (from jb@localhost) by freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA04355; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:04:49 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199611140704.SAA04355@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: Programming technique for non-forking servers? To: proff@suburbia.net (Julian Assange) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:04:48 +1100 (EST) Cc: stesin@gu.net, michaelh@cet.co.jp, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199611132221.JAA16095@suburbia.net> from Julian Assange at "Nov 14, 96 09:21:26 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Julian Assange wrote: > Speaking of threads, I noticed that the pthreads version of libc isn't > built at all by default. Can we change this behavior, to exercise the > code a little and to encourage development? > I'm working on a version that shares as much of libc as possible, leaving the thread specific stuff in libpthread (rather than building a separate library that duplicates stuff that could be shared). I still haven't come up with a working version that is acceptable to FreeBSD.org. Even if I succeed, you won't see anything until 2.2 is safely out the door. And I'm over due in writing that paper for the FSF conference. Sigh. Regards, -- John Birrell CIMlogic Pty Ltd jb@cimlogic.com.au 119 Cecil Street Ph +61 3 9690 6900 South Melbourne Vic 3205 Fax +61 3 9690 6650 Australia Mob +61 18 353 137