From owner-freebsd-java Tue Mar 6 10:37:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B02337B71B for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:37:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA09621; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 11:37:40 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09973; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 11:37:39 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15013.11891.57267.160163@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 11:37:39 -0700 (MST) To: Daniel Eischen Cc: Nate Williams , java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Java and libc/libpthread In-Reply-To: References: <15013.10075.22410.630598@nomad.yogotech.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > I'm currently working on an NxN libpthread implementation as > > > an interim solution until we get KSEs. The goal is to get > > > this done before 5.0. > > > > How is this different from the current implementation? > > File descriptors will not be made non-blocking like they are > currently in libc_r. When a thread blocks on I/O, it _really_ > blocks -- no other threads will be scheduled within that > [rfork_thread'd/cloned] process. So, reversing the logic ('not be made non-blocking'), file descriptors will be made blocking? This doesn't seem like progress, but I may not understand the implications. > Other PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM > [rfork_thread] threads will continue to run. So, you're going to create a system similar to Linux-threads, but with a more BSD-like license? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message