From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 22 19:37:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D451B15044 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:37:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: (from eischen@localhost) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id WAA13735; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 22:37:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 22:37:12 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen To: Jason Evans Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Threads and my new job. In-Reply-To: <19991122185220.D301@sturm.canonware.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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