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Date:      Mon, 14 Jul 2003 08:51:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        Kai Mosebach <kai.mosebach@freshx.de>
Cc:        freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AW: getpwnam + getpwnam_r + LinuxThreads port = deadlock
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10307140841530.19808-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <000601c349f9$39b69fe0$0100000a@alpha>

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On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Kai Mosebach wrote:
> > On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote:
> > 
> > > >
> > > >   3) CVSup to the latest 5.x and use libthr or libkse and
> > > >      forget linuxthreads.
> > >
> 
> I am having the same problems in my sapdb port, as mentioned in another
> mail. For me its also not this simple to simply switch to kse, because
> then
> other kse related problems occur.

Like what?  The -threads list is a good place to post these
problems.

> Wouldnt it be more "clean", to fix the issue in the linuxthreads
> implementation instead ? (For example many users might use linuxthreads
> for mysql compilation for example, not knowing what they await ...)

Have you tried sending the problem to the maintainer?
Our main concern is libthr and libkse stability for
5.2-release.  Eventually the ports system will learn
about our other thread libraries and will allow their
use in preference to linuxthreads.

-- 
Dan Eischen



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