From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 21 15:11:27 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D2E81065670 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:11:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de (mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de [217.11.53.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D5E8FC0A for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:11:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p4FC43C3D.dip.t-dialin.net [79.196.60.61]) by mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 89F58844017; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:11:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from unknown (IO.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.12]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB73B14DD; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:11:10 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:11:08 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Da Rock Message-ID: <20120121161108.000074bc@unknown> In-Reply-To: <4F1A7DF7.4060603@herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <4F1A7DF7.4060603@herveybayaustralia.com.au> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10cvs42 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-EBL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-EBL-MailScanner-ID: 89F58844017.A0508 X-EBL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-EBL-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, spamhaus-ZEN, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1, required 6, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00) X-EBL-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-EBL-MailScanner-Watermark: 1327763473.77769@W1gj7OBht5XN4jv5obA09g X-EBL-Spam-Status: No Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: linux-threads X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:11:27 -0000 On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:57:27 +1000 Da Rock wrote: > By all means shout me down if you like, but I just received the > updates re ports unmaintained etc and I noticed linux-threads in one > of them. > > This came in on the ports@ list: > > Unmaintained marked broken: > > portname: devel/linuxthreads > broken because: does not build > build errors: none. > overview:http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/portoverview.py?category=devel&portname=linuxthreads > > I'm curious as to why this wouldn't be coming to the emulation list > as isn't it critical to the use of the linux ports? And is the > maintainer situation similar to other linux ports- as in the list > maintains it for critical purposes? It is not a linuxulator port. It is doing what the old linux threads lib was doing (each thread is a process), just on FreeBSD. There was a timeframe where this gave better performance for the native MySQL than our default threads lib. Now our threads lib is better, and we do not need the linuxthreads ports anymore. Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137