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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:29:37 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>
Cc:        FreeBSD QUESTIONS <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: pthreads on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20000310152937.K14279@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003101751410.20812-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>; from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET on Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 05:53:05PM -0500
References:  <20000310151001.I14279@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003101751410.20812-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>

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* Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> [000310 15:25] wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm currently using 3.4-STABLE (Jan 02 2000), upgrade to current is not an
> option due to the production nature of the machine. Have such things been
> put into later versions of 3.4-STABLE? Thanks, I appreciate the advice.

Isn't that what I just said?

~ % man pthread_cancel | head -3

PTHREAD_CANCEL(3)      FreeBSD Library Functions Manual      PTHREAD_CANCEL(3)

~ % uname -srvm
FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE #0: Sun Feb 27 15:35:44 PST 2000

-Alfred

> 
> Matt
> --
> Matt Heckaman [matt@arpa.mail.net|matt@relic.net] [Please do not send me]
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> 
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> : Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:10:01 -0500
> : From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
> : To: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>
> : Cc: FreeBSD QUESTIONS <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> : Subject: Re: pthreads on FreeBSD
> : 
> : * Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> [000310 14:56] wrote:
> : > On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> : > [...]
> : > : Can you be more specific?  What's missing?
> : > 
> : > pthread_cancel is missing for one, to be more specific though is difficult
> : > for me, I'm not a programmer of any talent. We do have one critical
> : > application that uses ACE & pthread, it compiles fine - then chokes when
> : > it runs, more specifically, anything that uses the threads does not
> : > function. We do know that it works on Solaris & Linux though, neither OS
> : > am I familiar with on that level though.
> : 
> : You'll want to upgrade to FreeBSD-stable or even FreeBSD-current
> : to get recent pthread additions and fixes (which include pthread_cancel
> : functionality), please see:
> :   http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cutting-edge.html
> : 
> : for upgrade directions, either that or install a -stable or -current
> : "SNAP" from the ftp sites.
> : 
> : thanks,
> : -- 
> : -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
> : 

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]


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