From owner-freebsd-java Tue Jul 10 9:18:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B0D737B417 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:18:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@misty.eyesbeyond.com) Received: from [166.70.2.203] (helo=misty.eyesbeyond.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 15K0DQ-0000UY-00; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:18:25 -0600 Received: (from glewis@localhost) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6AGIKb59091; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 01:48:20 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 01:48:19 +0930 From: Greg Lewis To: Panagiotis Astithas Cc: Greg Lewis , Ian Jenkinson , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Threads in Java on a variety of platforms Message-ID: <20010711014819.A58979@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <000201c1086c$433a29e0$0a64a8c0@buxtongw> <20010710004206.A80869@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20010710143850.B12282@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010710143850.B12282@netmode.ece.ntua.gr>; from past@netmode.ntua.gr on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:38:50PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:38:50PM +0300, Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:42:06AM +0930, Greg Lewis wrote: > This is something that has been bugging me for a while: would it be good to > implement the native threads in FreeBSD under LinuxThreads or NGPT? I see that > KSE's are taking off, but there is a long way ahead. I am thinking of something > like a straight port of the Linux JDK native threads. Have you contemplated this > in your 1.3 porting efforts, or did you stick to green threads? At the moment, I've only gotten green threads "working" in the 1.3.1 port. However, I think that a LinuxThreads or NGPT implementation of native threads may be useful until KSE's become standard on FreeBSD. Saying that, it would likely be restricted to source code patches and not become part of any binary distribution we may be able to make due to the licensing. We might be able to work on that though, given they are both LGPL rather than GPL (I think, not 100% sure on NGPT). The primary threading mechanism for native threads would always be something that came as part of the stock FreeBSD distribution however. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Mobile: 0419 868 494 Information Technology Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message