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Date:      Sun, 27 Jun 1999 20:04:34 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Francis Jordan <frankrj@netscape.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: building thread-safe Xlibs
Message-ID:  <19990627200434.A22859@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <19990626003458.26580.qmail@ww185.netaddress.usa.net>; from Francis Jordan on Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 01:34:58AM %2B0100
References:  <19990626003458.26580.qmail@ww185.netaddress.usa.net>

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* Francis Jordan (frankrj@netscape.net) [990626 06:03]:
>      xc/include/Xos_r.h
> 
> which contains definitions of same (basically, pwd.h wrappers) for various 
> platforms, but not FreeBSD (I guess at the time FreeBSD didn't have threads). 
> Unfortunately, the wrappers for other platforms are no good, as FreeBSD's pwd
> structures are different from everything else.

Hmmm, one thing that's still missing from at least the POSIX threads is
pthread_cancel. Plus that there's no such thing as a libpthread.

Thread support (POSIX) has a long way to come in FreeBSD, but I lack
the cloo-by-four to do it.

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven                          asmodai(at)wxs.nl
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
Network/Security Specialist       BSD: Technical excellence at it's best
Cum angelis et pueris, fideles inveniamur. Quis est iste Rex gloriae...?


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