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Date:      Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:00:03 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru>
To:        David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
Cc:        core@freeebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: away
Message-ID:  <20060330125740.K4421@is.park.rambler.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200603300730.35065.davidxu@freebsd.org>
References:  <200603300730.35065.davidxu@freebsd.org>

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On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, David Xu wrote:

> I will go away today due to some unpleasant person attack to me, in the past,
> I have made lots of work in FreeBSD threading work, this includes kernel
> threading in earlier stage and thread libraries later, and gdb support for
> these new thread libraries from kernel to userland everywhere, spent lots
> of time to work in libpthread, and later make libthr to be best performance
> library for mysql and possible other applications developed on Linux and make
> it run on most platforms we current support.
> because the work load was large, I admit I have made some coding
> mistakes which some people think it is serious while other don't think so,
> I don't think it is not fixable, time goes and things will be fixed, think
> about FreeBSD comes from a 4.x which is ignorant about true kernel based
> thread, changing to current thread based kernel is really a painful thing to
> do, even with recently 6.1, I still have fixed lots of thread suspension race
> which I think is obscure, of course, my work does not stop on threading,
> recent, I also have added signal queue, POSIX message queue and timer,
> made AIO MP-safe, these are all work-in-progress, but I am sorry, the attack
> made to me is very harmful, I feel I can not recover from such disaster,
> working on FreeBSD is no longer fun. I will still use FreeBSD, but no
> contribution, current it is default OS I use in daily work from desktop to
> notebook.

David, please, do not leave FreeBSD development!
Your work is very important for FreeBSD.


Igor Sysoev
http://sysoev.ru/en/



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