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Date:      Mon, 29 May 2000 18:02:49 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@calcaphon.com>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
Cc:        Greg Lewis <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au>, freebsd-java@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel threads (RE: alphaworks 1.3 linux port)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005291802070.442-100000@doug02.qubesoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0005291813370.20280-100000@mx.webgiro.com>

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On Mon, 29 May 2000, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:

> On Mon, 29 May 2000, Doug Rabson wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 28 May 2000, Greg Lewis wrote:
> > 
> > > Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> > > > > > As I wrote about two weeks ago, I tried to get it running on
> > > > > > relatively up-to-date 5.0-CURRENT. Alphaworks JVM uses native threads on
> > > > > > Linux, which (as far as I understand) are impossible to have right now,
> > > > > > either under Linux emulation or otherwise.
> > > > > 
> > > > > /usr/ports/devel/linuxthreads?
> > > > 
> > > > Sure. Have you got the sources for their JVM?
> > > > 
> > > > :-)
> > > 
> > > If I did, I'd be porting them to FreeBSD ;).  I thought this port might
> > > allow the running of apps with use Linux threads, and the description
> > > didn't disabuse me of this notion so I thought I'd point it out.
> > 
> > Even without this port, Linux programs using linuxthreads will work fine
> > under emulation.
> 
> Hmm... Then either IBM doesn't use them, or they do things a bit too
> differently for our emulator... Would you mind taking a look at it, and
> make an educated guess what needs to be fixed in order to get it working?

I don't have time right now to debug this. You might try one of the thread
expers (jasone, deischen).

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@calcaphon.com
Technical Director, Qube Software Ltd.	Phone: +44 20 7431 9995



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