From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 29 12:00:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA27591 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 12:00:13 -0800 Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA27585 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 12:00:06 -0800 Received: (from dfr@localhost) by nlsys.demon.co.uk (8.6.10/8.6.9) id VAA00770; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 21:57:09 +0100 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 21:57:07 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Dayton Clark cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-realtime@hda.com, proven@mit.edu, pschung@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu Subject: Re: Posix thread library In-Reply-To: <9503291535.AA28381@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 Mar 1995, Dayton Clark wrote: > Threads were available on FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 (libpthread). There was > some talk a few months ago of bringing them (it?) up to Draft 8 and > onto 2.0R. Has there been any progress? > > A student here has gotten the 1.1.5.1 library running on 2.0R, maybe. > We're stuck at the moment and unsure whether it's our bug, differences > between 1.1.5.1 and 2.0R, or a bug in the original library. > > Anyway, is anyone else working along this line? Should we wait for > some imminent release that will solve all our problems? Should we > just continue to slug it out alone? Last time I looked, the latest beta of pthreads did include support for FreeBSD-2.0. Try looking in ftp://sipb.mit.edu/pub/pthreads -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsys.demon.co.uk Phone: +44 181 951 1891