Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:27:59 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: Mark Dixon <mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Comments about FreeBSD threading from Apache people Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10311111223240.25998-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <200311111609.14418.mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk>
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Mark Dixon wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 11:30, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > If you want libc_r deprecated sooner, get /etc/libmap.conf installed, > > > defaulting libc_r to libkse. Most people (including me), just use the > > > defaults. I've just found libmap.conf by chance, while trying to resolve > > > a build issue on a program that uses pthread_spinlock_* and POSIX > > > semaphore calls. You'd have more testers that way too. > > > > Something like this is under consideration for 5.2. > > I'm an occasional reader of this list, so I may not know what I'm talking > about, but wouldn't this break anything that tries to used threads and > Nvidia's OpenGL together? As KDE does this by default (when using x11/ > nvidia-driver), wouldn't this break a lot of people's systems (I'm pretty > sure it would break mine)? Yes, it'll break. You can use a libmap.conf if you want to override the threads library with libc_r. But Nvidia will have to rebuild their drivers/libraries to use dynamic LDT allocation if they are to be used for future FreeBSD releases. -- Dan Eischen
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