From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 29 10:17:59 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA23829 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 10:17:59 -0800 Received: from MIT.EDU (SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.72.1.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA23823 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 10:17:58 -0800 Received: from JIMI.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA06355; Wed, 29 Mar 95 13:17:42 EST Received: by jimi.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA17677; Wed, 29 Mar 95 13:17:36 -0500 Message-Id: <9503291817.AA17677@jimi.MIT.EDU> To: dayton@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu (Dayton Clark) Cc: proven@MIT.EDU, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-realtime@hda.com, pschung@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu Subject: Re: Posix thread library In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Mar 1995 10:35:33 EST." <9503291535.AA28381@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 13:17:35 EST From: Christopher Provenzano Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Threads were available on FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 (libpthread). There was > some talk a few months ago of bringing them (it?) up to Draft 8 and > onto 2.0R. Has there been any progress? It's not in the FreeBSD tree yet, but a library does exist for draft 10 on sipb.mit.edu:/pub/pthreads and it does run with FreeBSD 2.0. > > A student here has gotten the 1.1.5.1 library running on 2.0R, maybe. > We're stuck at the moment and unsure whether it's our bug, differences > between 1.1.5.1 and 2.0R, or a bug in the original library. The 1.1.5.1 version is several releases out of date, had many bugs which are now fixed and lacked many features. > > Anyway, is anyone else working along this line? Should we wait for > some imminent release that will solve all our problems? Should we > just continue to slug it out alone? Work continues on the pthread library adding new features, bug fixes, etc. Plans are also to roll the current code into the FreeBSD source tree soon. > > dayton CAP