From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 14 03:27:01 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA02424 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 03:27:01 -0700 Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA02415 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 03:26:54 -0700 Received: (from dfr@localhost) by minnow.render.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA27677; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 11:01:44 +0100 Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 11:01:42 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Timothy Moore cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HotJava In-Reply-To: <199507140659.XAA25463@gonzo.wolfe.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 13 Jul 1995, Timothy Moore wrote: > Is anyone still working on porting HotJava to FreeBSD? I see that a > version of pthreads that supports FreeBSD has been released. I might > be interested in taking this on; in a previous life I was a Common > Lisp implementor and have some appreciation of the issues. I just looked at this new pthreads implementation and it is a bit thin. It won't compile on FreeBSD without hacking, it doesn't address the need for an MT-safe C library and it is infected with the GPL. A far better pthreads implementation can be found in sipb.mit.edu:/pub/pthreads. This has MT-safe io, sockets, stdio and compiles out of the box on FreeBSD and many other architectures. The author (Chris Provenzano) is sometimes around on this list and sometimes threatens to merge it into FreeBSD's source tree. Any news on that, Chris? -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 251 4411 FAX: +44 171 251 0939