From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 4 16:49:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from evil.2y.net (port-1-75.adsl.one.net [216.23.20.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2369515158 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 16:49:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cokane@evil.2y.net) Received: (from cokane@localhost) by evil.2y.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA71359; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 19:52:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cokane) Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 19:52:17 -0500 From: Coleman Kane To: Judd Storrs Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: major number for libc_r bumped Message-ID: <20000104195217.A71343@evil.2y.net> References: <20000104103501.A70716@evil.2y.net> <20000104130227.A27700@diopter.2y.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000104130227.A27700@diopter.2y.net>; from judd@one.net on Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 01:04:29PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks, Judd. I guess I'll have to wait until 4.0 goes stable. --cokane Judd Storrs had the audacity to say: > Quoth Coleman Kane : > > > Hello, I have been trying to compile some programs, notably > > gNapster, and there doesn't seem to be any pthread_cancel function > > in libc_r. Is this an addition of Linux's that simply is not in > > FreeBSD's thread library, or is it planned for future inclusion? > > --coleman > > Hey Coleman! > > I was looking into this also a while ago for one of those gnome > napster clients. They were talking about this a while ago on > freebsd-hackers. My understanding is that pthread_cancel is in > -CURRENT and is not going to wander into 3.4. But it is a standard > POSIX call, and is documented at: > > http://www.opengroup.org/public/pubs/online/7908799/xsh/pthread_cancel.html. > > --judd > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message