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Date:      Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:24:13 +0000 (GMT)
From:      John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        dyson@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        thorpej@nas.nasa.gov, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What is wrong with this snipet?
Message-ID:  <199709152124.VAA02342@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199709141527.KAA00185@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at "Sep 14, 97 10:27:52 am"

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John S. Dyson wrote:
> We are going to be supporting a super efficient threads scheme that uses
> the RFMEM capability.  Sample code to use RFMEM is available upon request.
> It is already being used in commercial multi-threaded applications, but
> isn't ready for inclusion in FreeBSD (yet), due to a lack of more general
> userland support.  RFMEM supports full address space sharing in FreeBSD,
> and it is a bug otherwise (whomever implemented it first.)

Excuse my ignorance, I'm a bit out of touch, but is your RFMEM work
in the kernel ready to support a threaded libc? If so, that is good
news!

> 
> -- 
> John
> dyson@freebsd.org
> jdyson@nc.com

Regards,

-- 
John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@netbsd.org; jb@freebsd.org
CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137



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