From owner-freebsd-java Thu Nov 19 08:27:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA16055 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:27:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA16050; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:27:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA10854; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 09:26:35 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA04855; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 09:26:34 -0700 Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 09:26:34 -0700 Message-Id: <199811191626.JAA04855@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Michael Robinson Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: green threads vs. native threads ... In-Reply-To: <199811190910.RAA01871@public.bta.net.cn> References: <199811190910.RAA01871@public.bta.net.cn> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Nate Williams writes: > >> Would it be a moot point to ask for the FreeBSD kernel to support native > >> threads? > > > >Sure. Patches to implement them are gladly accepted. Oh, you mean > >forcing someone to implement threads in FreeBSD? Naw, that's not the > >way it's done. New features get done because someone thems to be done > >and does them. > > That's one way of looking at it. Here's another way of looking at it: > > "A good example of keeping sight of the larger picture is FreeBSD's > attitude towards its Linux emulation. [ Marketing type deleted ] That doesn't matter a whole lot if there isn't any technology added to keep the emulation up to date. It's one thing to say 'Linux emulation is important to us', it's a completely other thing to say 'we don't have sufficient BSD copyrighted technology to completely emulate all of the Linux kernel functions'. If you don't have, you don't have it. And, patches are gladly accepted. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message