From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 14 10:09:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA14519 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 10:09:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA14510 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 10:09:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA29213; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 09:59:57 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199608141659.JAA29213@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. NT Stability To: dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk (Developer) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 09:59:57 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, koshy@india.hp.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Developer" at Aug 14, 96 09:23:10 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] 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 > On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > This may be a silly question, but where do I get libpthreads from? > > > > It is in ports. You will need a thread safe lbc (patched included > > in the port, I believe). > > I understand.. but what is the name of the package in ports that does the > threads, I can`t find it??? libc_r. build libc_r, and you will have a reentrant (hence the "_r") libc. The POSIX threading is build into the library (under uthread or something, I think; you will need to look at the sources to be sure). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.