Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 01:35:46 EDT From: Christopher Provenzano <proven@MIT.EDU> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@render.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HotJava Message-ID: <9507290535.AA19342@yaz-pistachio.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jul 1995 11:01:42 BST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.950714105610.7169G-100000@minnow.render.com>
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> 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? I've been busy, but I'm still working on it. CAP
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