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Date:      Mon, 4 Oct 1999 06:54:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        asmodai@wxs.nl, shocking@prth.pgs.com
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, nordwick@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu
Subject:   Re: I was accepted to LokiHack '99 at Atlanta Linux Showcase
Message-ID:  <199910041054.GAA14658@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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> Do you mean pthreads?
>
> If so, we still do not have a pthread_cancel in our libc_r which could
> greatly make things harder to implement. I think OpenBSD has one and we
> might do well to look at that one.

We could implement pthread_cancel rather easily (I have some crufty
patches lying around somewhere to do it), but it wouldn't be nearly
POSIX compliant.  Some non-cancellable routines would be cancellable,
and vice-versa I think too.                                       

We need to take a different approach to our threads library in the
form of scheduler activations.  I _can_ hack in the pthread_cancel
routines into our current libc_r, but I'd much rather spend my
time looking into scheduler activations which will better solve
the problem.

Dan Eischen
eischen@vigrid.com


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