Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 21:27:24 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsys.demon.co.uk> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> Cc: Dayton Clark <dayton@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-realtime@hda.com, proven@mit.edu, pschung@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu Subject: Re: Posix thread library Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950331212623.1077B-100000@nlsys.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <682.796513032@freefall.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 29 Mar 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Threads were available on FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 (libpthread). There was > > some talk a few months ago of bringing them (it?) up to Draft 8 and > > onto 2.0R. Has there been any progress? > > That's a good question! :-) > > Every USENIX I talk to the thread god (Chris Provenzano) about it, who > either says that something is imminent on this front or that we need > to decide whether or not we're going to go for a fully thread-safe > libc. The libc changes entail either a compile-time switch to enable > it or leaving it *always* on so that main() is just your first > autocreated thread. > > Either way, once we decide how we want it to go them we need to get > Chris or someone to finally bring the changes in. How important are > ptreads to folks? David, do you remember the conclusions we reached > when we last talked to Chris in N.O.? Did we reach any conclusions? :-) Well some of the Fresco demos only work with threads support... -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsys.demon.co.uk Phone: +44 181 951 1891
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