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Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 16:03:02 -0700
From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
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To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: "Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO" <myevmenkin@att.com>,
	freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>,
	Titus von Boxberg <tboxberg@schuett-elektronik.de>
Subject: Re: Pthread blocking I/O
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John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On 06-Mar-00 Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> >> What's the reason for locking the file descriptors
> >> for *all* system calls? especially those I mentioned?
> >>
> >> Where is pthread_cancel() ?
> >
> > are you using -stable (3.x)? there is no ``pthread_cancel'' in -stable.
> > use -current.
> 
> Bzzzzt!!! Wrong!
> 
> [system info elided...]
> 
> You do need a fairly recent -stable, but it's in there. :)

From the manpage, I'd guess the magic date to be on or about Jan 17,
2000.

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Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
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