Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:35:37 +0100 From: Adam Retter <adam@adamretter.eclipse.co.uk> To: Chris <bsd@1command.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: away Message-ID: <1143740137.89530.3.camel@funkalicious.home.dom> In-Reply-To: <20060330083736.diiud3wv280k0cww@webmail.1command.com> References: <200603300730.35065.davidxu@freebsd.org> <442BC198.5000209@wincmd.ru> <20060330083736.diiud3wv280k0cww@webmail.1command.com>
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Who attacked him, can we not give them a kicking ;-) On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 08:37 -0800, Chris wrote: > Greetings, > I feel as Tarasov Alexey. This would be a terrible loss to anyone > who currently, or in the future; uses FreeBSD. I *dearly* hope that > you can reconcile this issue and not leave. > > All the best to you. > Chris > > Quoting Tarasov Alexey <lexa@wincmd.ru>: > > > Please, don't leave us, David! > > > > > > Best regards, > > Tarasov Alexey. > > > > > > > > David Xu wrote: > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> I will go away today due to some unpleasant person attack to me, in > >> the past, > >> I have made lots of work in FreeBSD threading work, this includes kernel > >> threading in earlier stage and thread libraries later, and gdb support for > >> these new thread libraries from kernel to userland everywhere, spent lots > >> of time to work in libpthread, and later make libthr to be best > >> performance library for mysql and possible other applications > >> developed on Linux and make it run on most platforms we current > >> support. > >> because the work load was large, I admit I have made some coding > >> mistakes which some people think it is serious while other don't think so, > >> I don't think it is not fixable, time goes and things will be fixed, > >> think about FreeBSD comes from a 4.x which is ignorant about true > >> kernel based thread, changing to current thread based kernel is > >> really a painful thing to do, even with recently 6.1, I still have > >> fixed lots of thread suspension race which I think is obscure, of > >> course, my work does not stop on threading, > >> recent, I also have added signal queue, POSIX message queue and timer, > >> made AIO MP-safe, these are all work-in-progress, but I am sorry, > >> the attack made to me is very harmful, I feel I can not recover from > >> such disaster, working on FreeBSD is no longer fun. I will still use > >> FreeBSD, but no > >> contribution, current it is default OS I use in daily work from desktop to > >> notebook. > >> > >> I wish FreeBSD will succeed as its 4.x versions did. > >> > >> Sincerely, > >> David Xu > >> _______________________________________________ > >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >> > >> > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > >
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