From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 28 10: 7:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from venom.ai.net (venom.ai.net [205.134.190.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17D8A37B406 for ; Tue, 28 May 2002 10:07:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blood (pool-138-88-73-204.res.east.verizon.net [138.88.73.204]) by venom.ai.net (8.11.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id g4SH3pK70782; Tue, 28 May 2002 13:03:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from deepak@ai.net) Reply-To: From: "Deepak Jain" To: "David Greenman-Lawrence" , "Des Smith" Cc: Subject: RE: FreeBSD/NetBSD threads Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 13:06:41 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20020528100012.C53004@nexus.root.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If that's the (somewhat practical) naming convention.. maybe they should name them "notproven-threads". Someone has a great sense of humor. DJ -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David Greenman-Lawrence Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 1:00 PM To: Des Smith Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/NetBSD threads >I am trying to build an application on FreeBSD. > >The application is supported on NetBSD. On NetBSD it uses >‘unproven-threads’. > >What is unproven-threads? How different is it from FreeBSD threads >support in libc_r. I believe the original author of pthreads was Chris Provenzano, login "proven". I would guess that "unproven" threads is a new implementation that is not based on Chris's work. -DG David Greenman-Lawrence Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com President, Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message