From owner-cvs-all Tue Nov 30 15:38:22 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from test.tar.com (test.tar.com [204.95.187.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D735514D52 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 15:38:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dick@test.tar.com) Received: (from dick@localhost) by test.tar.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA15499; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:37:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dick) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:37:40 -0600 From: "Richard Seaman, Jr." To: Julian Elischer Cc: Matthew Dillon , Nate Williams , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/linuxthreads Makefile README Message-ID: <19991130173740.T29767@tar.com> References: <199911302145.NAA97278@alpo.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <199911302145.NAA97278@alpo.whistle.com> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 01:45:42PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > ports/devel/linuxthreads/files README.FreeBSD _atomic_lock.S > clone.S > clone.h getgr_r.c lclone.c libc_calls.c libc_private.h > libc_spinlock.h > libc_thread.c md5 pthread.h pthread_np.h ... > In-Reply-To: <199911301843.KAA26637@apollo.backplane.com> > Message-ID: > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > It's only a library call... :-) > > On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > Yahhh. Finally, a native clone()! Yes, its only a library call. But, the _clone() call that is used in linux is normally also only a library call, that wraps the clone syscall. Its easy enough to have a FreeBSD clone syscall, just move linux_clone() from the linux_misc.c file to the FreeBSD syscall list, and call it clone(). But why? You've got rfork(). :) -- Richard Seaman, Jr. email: dick@tar.com 5182 N. Maple Lane phone: 262-367-5450 Chenequa WI 53058 fax: 262-367-5852 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message