Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:55:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: "Richard Seaman, Jr." <dick@tar.com>, Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Subject: Re: Using LinuxThreads Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9901221154230.59627-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901211102220.703-100000@s204m82.isp.whistle.com>
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On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: > > > > And when are COMPAT_LINUX_THREADS and VM_STACK going away? > > > > I have no idea. I was hoping that at least COMPAT_LINUX_THREADS > > would go away before the branch. I don't have commit authority, > > so it isn't up to me. > > > > hmm did you send me the patches? > > I can certainly do it now..(given a patch set to apply) > > I just realised however, that if we make them go away we break > SMP right? > hmm I guess we only break it for programs that woudltry use it > which should be none if you run SMP :-) It doesn't break SMP (I'm running an SMP kernel with COMPAT_LINUX_THREADS). All that happens is that linux_clone() returns an error. Surprisingly StarOffice still works fairly well. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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