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Date:      Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:46:24 +0300
From:      Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Jon Mini <mini@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Commiting KSE pthreads prototype into -CURRENT.
Message-ID:  <20020912144624.A58095@phantom.cris.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020911034340.GI3866@elvis.mu.org>; from mini@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 08:43:40PM -0700
References:  <20020911034340.GI3866@elvis.mu.org>

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hi,

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 08:43:40PM -0700, Jon Mini wrote:

> My work in the KSE p4 branch has reached the point where I have a
> functional pthreads library (a modified version of libc_r) that
> uses KSE for scheduling. An bug in the npx code is causing problems,
> but once that is resolved I want to commit these changes.
[dd] 
>   Looking forward, once KSE has stabalized, we can switch the -pthread
> option to point to the KSE library rather than the old libc_r. Sometime
> after that, we can deprecate libc_r and eventually disconnect it from 
> the build. This is some time down the road, however.

As I recall correctly '-pthread' is required for 4-STABLE only. In CURRENT
you just need to link against -lc_r to get threaded application.

>   Right now, we need to ship an experimental version of KSE with 5.0-RELEASE,
> and I think this is the best way to do it.
> 
>   Comments? Objections?

Go ahead. In case of having objections you just may not link it to build
right now, so interested people may build it manually.


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