From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 30 09:00:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ECD816A432; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:00:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from is@rambler-co.ru) Received: from yam.park.rambler.ru (yam.park.rambler.ru [81.19.64.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 658EE43D46; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:00:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from is@rambler-co.ru) Received: from is.park.rambler.ru (is.park.rambler.ru [81.19.64.102]) by yam.park.rambler.ru (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k2U903Wj075880; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:00:03 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from is@rambler-co.ru) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:00:03 +0400 (MSD) From: Igor Sysoev X-X-Sender: is@is.park.rambler.ru To: David Xu In-Reply-To: <200603300730.35065.davidxu@freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20060330125740.K4421@is.park.rambler.ru> References: <200603300730.35065.davidxu@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: core@freeebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: away X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:00:07 -0000 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/