Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 22:37:12 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Threads and my new job. Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.991122221924.11595B-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <19991122185220.D301@sturm.canonware.com>
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On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Jason Evans wrote: > What am I going to do? My first mandate is to round out the edges of our > current libc_r and to bring it closer to standards compliance before 4.0. > Specifically, I know that the following work is necessary: > > *) Address and close approximately 20 PRs. The list of PRs I know about > is: i386/7426, bin/7587, misc/8202, bin/8281, kern/8729, misc/9778, > misc/9903, misc/10599, bin/10992, kern/11982, kern/11984, bin/13008, > misc/13117, kern/13644, misc/14264, i386/14383, kern/14685, and > docs/14858. If there are other PRs that I didn't list that are directly > related to threads, please let me know about them in private email so > that I can keep track of them. I have a few things already fixed, some have gotten stale and need to be merged into what is now current. Give me another week or so and I can update them. > > *) Signal delivery fixes. I think Daniel Eischen has already taken care of > this. Yes, awaiting review by JB. > > *) Lacking interfaces, such as pthread_cancel() (mentioned specifically in > PR bin/7587) need to be implemented. This is done. Alfred Pearlstein ported NetBSDs (or was it OpenBSD) pthread_cancel() support. I've reviewed and made comments to it, but JB probably needs to review it also. > *) Make a real libpthread, rather than relying on the -pthread linker > magic. This is high on Daniel Eischen's wish list, so maybe he already > has something in the works. =) Not yet :-(. I think libc needs some major work in order to achieve this. You should put this on your ToDo list :-) > If you know of other outstanding issues that have a prayer of being > addressed before 4.0 ships, please speak up. Good Luck in your new job :) I'd love to be able to do this full-time and am envious! Dan Eischen eischen@vigrid.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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