From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 20 14:37:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA07374 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:37:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from melb.werple.net.au (melb.werple.net.au [203.9.190.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA07349 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:37:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.6/8.7.3/2) with UUCP id GAA23407; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 06:59:19 +1000 (EST) Received: (from jb@localhost) by freebsd3.cimlogic.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA11336; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 18:33:56 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199609200833.SAA11336@freebsd3.cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: libc_r and MIT pthreads To: jdrobina@infinet.com (James Drobina) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 18:33:56 +1000 (EST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from James Drobina at "Sep 17, 96 07:53:51 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] 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 > > Is ther any chance of updating libc_r to use the lastest version of MIT > pthreads (pthreads-1_60_beta5)? Not much. There are too many functions in MIT pthreads-1_60 which clash with code in FreeBSD's libc. MIT pthreads was based on an early version of NetBSD. Compare the code... it's sufficiently different to make any merge impractical. Regards, -- John Birrell CIMlogic Pty Ltd jb@cimlogic.com.au 119 Cecil Street Ph +61 3 9690 6900 South Melbourne Vic 3205 Fax +61 3 9690 6650 Australia Mob +61 18 353 137