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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 1995 21:57:07 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsys.demon.co.uk>
To:        Dayton Clark <dayton@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-realtime@hda.com, proven@mit.edu, pschung@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu
Subject:   Re: Posix thread library 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.950329215439.273A-100000@nlsys.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <9503291535.AA28381@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu>

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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

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