From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 7 22:52:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA27429 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 22:52:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from seabass.progroup.com (catfish.progroup.com [206.24.122.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA27424 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 22:52:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from seabass.progroup.com (seabass.progroup.com [206.24.122.1]) by seabass.progroup.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA22508; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 22:51:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <32FC2272.41C67EA6@progroup.com> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 22:51:30 -0800 From: Craig Shaver Organization: Productivity Group, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John S. Dyson" CC: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fcntl, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK & /dev/null References: <199702080220.VAA14428@dyson.iquest.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John S. Dyson wrote: > > > > > Is there any work being done for implementing kernel threads? I would > > think this would be very important for a robust, real-world usable, > > thread package. > > > That is one of my interests. Doug Santry is also interested. Certainly > don't want to 'claim' the project until I start. I have some ideas, > and in conjunction with some of Doug's work, I think that we could > have a really good thread's capability. I have a VM experiment to > do first (relocatable kernel stack, totally shared VM space.) If > that works, we'll have a start on a really good mechanism. > > John Do you have a time frame for when this may start? I could volunteer some time beginning in March, to develop some test programs, demos, and bench- marks. Would this be helpful? Please let me know. Thanks for the feedback ... -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088