Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 01:16:12 -0500 (EST) From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> To: openafs-devel@openafs.org Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS for FreeBSD 5.2 patch Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58-035.0403160114300.17117@johnstown.andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0403160021360.13819-100000@wn4.sci.kun.nl> References: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0403160021360.13819-100000@wn4.sci.kun.nl>
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On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > The main problem will probably be threading libraries (ie. the total lack > of them in openafs for your particular platform). Since OpenAFS uses its > own thread library, that poses an additional portability hurdle for the > system. The word "abomination" was used in conjunction with it recently. > In particular, FreeBSD-amd64 can't do OpenAFS because of the threading > stuff. A port to any of the pthreads libs would be a large task but > probably needs to be done sometime. There's an LWP wrapper around pthreads in Arla. I contributed it years ago. So, unless by "large task" you mean copying some files is hard, no.
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