Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 12:03:35 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: cimaxp1!jb@werple.net.au (John Birrell) Cc: lambert.org!terry@werple.net.au, hackers@freebsd.org, jb@cimlogic.com.au Subject: Re: ideas from netbsd Message-ID: <199511082003.MAA05008@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199511080735.SAA22790@werple.net.au> from "John Birrell" at Nov 8, 95 06:38:36 pm
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> > > > Hardly! Building a FreeBSD thread-safe library gives you a > > > thread-safe library and JAVA. Implementing NetBSD support to give you > > > JAVA gives you only JAVA. I don't think it takes a rocket scientist > > > to figure out that "1 + 1 = 2" and "1 + 0 = 1" > > > > Building a FreeBSD thread-safe library gives you a thread-safe library. > > Sigh.... Yes! So? > > > > > Taking NetBSD's work after it's done gives you a thread-safe library. > > Where is the thread-safe NetBSD library? It's not _in_ NetBSD at the moment > is it? Has there been an announcement that it will be in 1.2? > > In private mail the other day, CAP said he's talking to NetBSD about making > their libc thread safe (like we're doing to FreeBSD's libc). Terry, We're also working with him.. It'll probably be much the same stuff! ok? enough on this topic.. > > > Now, if it were possible to build the FreeBSD libc for NetBSD, that'd save > us a lot of grief. > > And then we'd probably find that 2 + 2 = 4, 2 * 2 = 4 _AND_ 2 ^ 2 = 4. 8-)>.
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