From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 4 7: 0: 4 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D94F837B401 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 07:00:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from espresso.q9media.com (espresso.q9media.com [65.39.129.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5230143F43 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 07:00:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@espresso.q9media.com) Received: by espresso.q9media.com (Postfix, from userid 1002) id A58AD9C4A; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:48:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:48:02 -0500 From: Mike Barcroft To: David Leimbach Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interested in helping the C99 integration project Message-ID: <20030204094802.E40910@espresso.q9media.com> References: <6292471.1044369223935.JavaMail.leimy2k@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6292471.1044369223935.JavaMail.leimy2k@mac.com>; from leimy2k@mac.com on Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 08:33:43AM -0600 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Please wrap lines at 72 characters or less.] David Leimbach writes: > Hi, > > I am a software developer who has benefitted greatly from using FreeBSD the past few years as well as other software like KDE. I have been doing what I can here and there to make sure big projects like KDE will build and run on FreeBSD as well as other operating systems. > > I came to the realization that we [FreeBSD users/developers] are missing some thread safe functions like getpwnam_r. I was wondering if I could somehow help ease the burden either by testing or implementing some of these functions. > > Who do I want to organize with to help with this stuff? See http://www.freebsd.org/projects/c99/ Wes Peters has been assigned this task for a while. Perhaps you could co-ordinate with him. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message