Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 11:13:38 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, (Mark Tinguely) <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu> Subject: Re: Thread calls Message-ID: <XFMail.980902111338.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199809020016.RAA08412@usr01.primenet.com>
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On 02-Sep-98 Terry Lambert wrote: > > the PMPTHREADS package (http://www.humanfactor.com/pthreads/) has > > the pthread_setcancelstate(), pthread_setcanceltype(), and > > pthread_testcancel() routines you require. > > But will require hacking to integrate into libc_r such that system > call reentrancy is handled correctly. > > This is the problem with third party user space threading packages. > > Better to just add the code to FreeBSD. Well.. I was just asking if anyone was actually doing this or not =) I did try the thrid party pthreads thing but it doesn't like -current, and then I realised I'd have to recompile a few things (like X.. again) to use it. So, from what I hear, noone is implementing these calls in FreeBSD's libc_r? --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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