From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 28 10: 3: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from root.com (nexus.root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E98837B404 for ; Tue, 28 May 2002 10:03:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dg@localhost) by root.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g4SH0CC67669; Tue, 28 May 2002 10:00:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg) Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 10:00:12 -0700 From: David Greenman-Lawrence To: Des Smith Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/NetBSD threads Message-ID: <20020528100012.C53004@nexus.root.com> References: <000a01c20667$e6909b70$b80112ac@DESSMITH> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <000a01c20667$e6909b70$b80112ac@DESSMITH>; from Des.Smith@corvil.com on Tue, May 28, 2002 at 05:51:23PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I am trying to build an application on FreeBSD. > >The application is supported on NetBSD. On NetBSD it uses >‘unproven-threads’. > >What is unproven-threads? How different is it from FreeBSD threads >support in libc_r. I believe the original author of pthreads was Chris Provenzano, login "proven". I would guess that "unproven" threads is a new implementation that is not based on Chris's work. -DG David Greenman-Lawrence Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com President, Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message