Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:28:48 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, "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.4.05.9901221128200.9677-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9901221154230.59627-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > 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. StarOffice 5.0? Is this with Luoqi's shared process across SMP patches? > > -- > 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 > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ http://www.freebsd.org/ _ __ ___ ____ | _ \__ \ |) | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ ___ ____ _____ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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