Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 07:41:26 +1030 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org> Cc: Mikhail Kruk <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu>, Guerry Semones <gsemones@treenleaf.com>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need info for compiling JDK1.3.1 on FreeBSD with Native Threads Message-ID: <20020215074126.A66007@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <20020214194925.GA1818@gnuppy.monkey.org>; from billh@gnuppy.monkey.org on Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 11:49:25AM -0800 References: <20020214190716.GA1472@gnuppy.monkey.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0202141411260.13821-100000@daedalus.cs.brandeis.edu> <20020214194925.GA1818@gnuppy.monkey.org>
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 11:49:25AM -0800, Bill Huey wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:14:08PM -0500, Mikhail Kruk wrote: > > > The JVM environment should be the program driving the coexisting > > > program. > > > > > > I mean, what did you expect ? ;-) > > > > Wait, what he is trying to do should be compltely possible and a legal > > thing to do. Linux and Solaris allow that. If JNI support works this > > should be possible. Maybe he just needs native threads? > > Is it ? > > Well, this is the first I've heard of it. Is this how the plugin works > in Netscape and other programs ? Yes. Its also the method for doing things like embedding Java into PHP. This isn't really much different conceptually from embedding a Perl interpreter, but it does mean that the program needs to play nice with the JVM. > Uh, you can't really call the normal IO functions, read()/write(), etc... > without it piping through the thread system in some way. If it's green threads, > then any function like that the coexistent program uses must go through > that layer of thread-managed wrapped functions and not the normal functions > in libc, etc... I'm not sure of the linking conventions off hand so I don't > know how to export those wrapped functions to a companion program. The problem could be in a number of areas. I think we need more information, e.g. does the program also attempt to use pthreads or the like? -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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