Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 08:35:32 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, lists@tar.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel threading (was Re: Thread Scheduler bug) Message-ID: <199810312135.IAA10997@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199810312118.NAA00662@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Oct 31, 98 01:18:12 pm"
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Mike Smith wrote: > It sounds like the two of you should cooperate on it then; Richard has > clearly managed to get his head around at least some of the kernel > issues, while you're on top of the user-space stuff. I think that the code in the FreeBSD kernel is inappropriate for a POSIX thread implementation. The syscall design needs to change. And the management of pid entries for threads needs to change too. Then there are the multi-architecture issues. I doubt that I'll have time in the next 6 months. Unless someone finds some dollars. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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