From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Sep 12 4:41:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 351BB37B400; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 04:41:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from columbus.cris.net (columbus.cris.net [212.110.128.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA55243E7B; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 04:41:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ml@phantom.cris.net) Received: from phantom.cris.net (root@phantom.cris.net [212.110.130.74]) by columbus.cris.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA52584; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:40:56 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from ml@localhost) by phantom.cris.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) id g8CBkOHj058136; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:46:24 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ml) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:46:24 +0300 From: Alexey Zelkin To: Jon Mini Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Commiting KSE pthreads prototype into -CURRENT. Message-ID: <20020912144624.A58095@phantom.cris.net> References: <20020911034340.GI3866@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020911034340.GI3866@elvis.mu.org>; from mini@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 08:43:40PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message