Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:31:36 +0400 From: Tarasov Alexey <lexa@wincmd.ru> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: away Message-ID: <442BC198.5000209@wincmd.ru> In-Reply-To: <200603300730.35065.davidxu@freebsd.org> References: <200603300730.35065.davidxu@freebsd.org>
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Please, don't leave us, David! Best regards, Tarasov Alexey. David Xu wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I will go away today due to some unpleasant person attack to me, in the past, > I have made lots of work in FreeBSD threading work, this includes kernel > threading in earlier stage and thread libraries later, and gdb support for > these new thread libraries from kernel to userland everywhere, spent lots > of time to work in libpthread, and later make libthr to be best performance > library for mysql and possible other applications developed on Linux and make > it run on most platforms we current support. > because the work load was large, I admit I have made some coding > mistakes which some people think it is serious while other don't think so, > I don't think it is not fixable, time goes and things will be fixed, think > about FreeBSD comes from a 4.x which is ignorant about true kernel based > thread, changing to current thread based kernel is really a painful thing to > do, even with recently 6.1, I still have fixed lots of thread suspension race > which I think is obscure, of course, my work does not stop on threading, > recent, I also have added signal queue, POSIX message queue and timer, > made AIO MP-safe, these are all work-in-progress, but I am sorry, the attack > made to me is very harmful, I feel I can not recover from such disaster, > working on FreeBSD is no longer fun. I will still use FreeBSD, but no > contribution, current it is default OS I use in daily work from desktop to > notebook. > > I wish FreeBSD will succeed as its 4.x versions did. > > Sincerely, > David Xu > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > >
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