From owner-freebsd-java Tue Aug 6 14:40:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EB7837B400 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 14:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gnuppy.monkey.org (wsip68-15-8-100.sd.sd.cox.net [68.15.8.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D09DC43E4A for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 14:40:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billh@gnuppy.monkey.org) Received: from billh by gnuppy.monkey.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17cC3U-0000ci-00; Tue, 06 Aug 2002 14:39:52 -0700 Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 14:39:52 -0700 To: freebsd@spatula.net Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG, eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com, "Bill Huey (Hui)" Subject: Re: backporting libc_r changes Message-ID: <20020806213952.GA2381@gnuppy.monkey.org> References: <20020802101552.Y62438-100000@turing.morons.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Bill Huey (Hui) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hey Nick, On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 03:30:13PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > It's not _that_ difficult for someone who understands the > code and the differences. I wish I had time but I'm working > on the KSE stuff. If I did have the time, I'd try to change > -current so that it would work in -stable with just a couple > of #ifdefs. > > Notable differences between -current and -stable: > > o system calls are _thread_sys_* in -stable and > __sys_* in -current. The threads library could > always use __SYS_* or something and conditionally > define these to be the right thing depending on > whether it was -stable or -current. It's just like in that private mail I wrote to you a while back when you asked that same question to me. Did you think I was lying or something like that ? ;) > o -current doesn't include libc, so there may be > some differences due to that (cancellation > points and weak definitions might have to be > changed/removed for -stable). Sound like it's much the same stuff. :) bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message