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Date:      Tue, 7 Nov 1995 18:04:47 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        nate@rocky.sri.MT.net, terry@lambert.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ideas from netbsd
Message-ID:  <199511080204.SAA03447@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199511080126.SAA18685@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Nov 7, 95 06:26:42 pm

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> 
> > Umm, NetBSD's library is *NOT* thread safe at this stage of the game.
> > I watch the commit list, an no thread changes have been made to the
> > library in the last 5 months.
> 
> I've been talking once or twice (ie: not in good contact) with the
> JAVA porter for NetBSD, and he indicated changes had been made.  I
> don't know how closely their -current echoes their intended Nov 17th
> release code base... maybe not very closely at all.
> 

there are thread-safe libc mods being worked up at the moment
for FreeBSD The first rounds will be trickling in soon for commit

they will initially be #ifdef _THREAD_SAFE_ guarded,
and used to make a libc_r, but they willprobably be merged whe they are
proven.






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