Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:11:08 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Da Rock <freebsd-emulation@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: linux-threads Message-ID: <20120121161108.000074bc@unknown> In-Reply-To: <4F1A7DF7.4060603@herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <4F1A7DF7.4060603@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:57:27 +1000 Da Rock <freebsd-emulation@herveybayaustralia.com.au> 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
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