From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 27 11:37:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1F7A14E9B; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 11:37:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.197.207]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA3B58; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 20:37:25 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA22906; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 20:04:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 20:04:34 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Francis Jordan Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: building thread-safe Xlibs Message-ID: <19990627200434.A22859@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <19990626003458.26580.qmail@ww185.netaddress.usa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.3i In-Reply-To: <19990626003458.26580.qmail@ww185.netaddress.usa.net>; from Francis Jordan on Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 01:34:58AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Francis Jordan (frankrj@netscape.net) [990626 06:03]: > xc/include/Xos_r.h > > which contains definitions of same (basically, pwd.h wrappers) for various > platforms, but not FreeBSD (I guess at the time FreeBSD didn't have threads). > Unfortunately, the wrappers for other platforms are no good, as FreeBSD's pwd > structures are different from everything else. Hmmm, one thing that's still missing from at least the POSIX threads is pthread_cancel. Plus that there's no such thing as a libpthread. Thread support (POSIX) has a long way to come in FreeBSD, but I lack the cloo-by-four to do it. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at it's best Cum angelis et pueris, fideles inveniamur. Quis est iste Rex gloriae...? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message