Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 14:32:44 +0930 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org> Cc: Fuyuhiko Maruyama <fuyuhik8@is.titech.ac.jp>, Arun Sharma <arun@sharmas.dhs.org>, java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: JVM and native threads Message-ID: <20010827143244.A12305@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <20010826171010.A6742@gnuppy>; from billh@gnuppy.monkey.org on Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 05:10:10PM -0700 References: <20010824233304.A32099@sharmas.dhs.org> <55vgjcqv87.wl@tripper.private> <20010825095746.A1015@sharmas.dhs.org> <55heuv0xtl.wl@tripper.private> <20010826171010.A6742@gnuppy>
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On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 05:10:10PM -0700, Bill Huey wrote: > On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 10:12:38PM +0900, Fuyuhiko Maruyama wrote: > > Yes, I also think we need to define some _np calls. To do so, we need > > to consider what APIs are really needed, defined APIs are sufficient > > and general enough. > > > > We must spend more time to discuss about this issue. > > The primary *_np stuff we need has to do with thread resume & suspension. The FreeBSD native threads stuff also does some nasty grovelling in the pthread private data structure for the stack address and stack size. I know these are handled by _np functions on BSD/OS, but they need to be included in any FreeBSD discussion of the pthreads APIs that we need. I suspect this sort of discussion will also apply to NetBSD and OpenBSD. > It's used sparingly in a couple of places with varying levels of functional > importance like the GC and during thread creation time (new threads are > suspended only to be woken up by the spawning function after the stack is > attach to the VM), etc... > > I'm struggling with OpenMotif issues right now and I'm kind of wondering > why the current OpenMotif port is a release version behind what's being > offered at their site ? Not sure. Ask the port maintainer :). -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Phone : (801) 765 1887 Information Technology Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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