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Date:      Mon, 3 Jul 2006 13:36:23 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
Cc:        threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strawman proposal: making libthr default thread implementation?
Message-ID:  <20060703133454.L57091@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607030744030.5823@sea.ntplx.net>
References:  <20060703101554.Q26325@fledge.watson.org> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607030744030.5823@sea.ntplx.net>

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On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Daniel Eischen wrote:

>> - Are there technical features present in libpthread that aren't yet in
>>  libthr, and are required?  In the past system/local thread support has 
>> been
>>  the complaint, but I believe that is now long fixed.  This is useful
>>  regardless of a switch.
>
> Yes, you have to support PTHREAD_PRIO_PROTECT, PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutexes, 
> and SCHED_RR, SCHED_FIFO, and SCHED_SPORADIC scheduling (hopefully not under 
> the restriction that you are a privileged user).
>
> If you can those in libthr, I have no objection.  However, these are not as 
> easy to do in 1:1.

Thanks for leeting me know.  Other than thee above missing scheduling 
functionality, are you aware of any other missing or substantially 
non-functional features in libthr that are important to this discussion?

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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