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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 1995 13:17:35 EST
From:      Christopher Provenzano  <proven@MIT.EDU>
To:        dayton@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu (Dayton Clark)
Cc:        proven@MIT.EDU, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-realtime@hda.com, pschung@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu
Subject:   Re: Posix thread library 
Message-ID:  <9503291817.AA17677@jimi.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Mar 1995 10:35:33 EST." <9503291535.AA28381@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu> 

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> Threads were available on FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 (libpthread).  There was
> some talk a few months ago of bringing them (it?) up to Draft 8 and
> onto 2.0R.  Has there been any progress?

It's not in the FreeBSD tree yet, but a library does exist for draft 10
on sipb.mit.edu:/pub/pthreads and it does run with FreeBSD 2.0.

> 
> A student here has gotten the 1.1.5.1 library running on 2.0R, maybe.
> We're stuck at the moment and unsure whether it's our bug, differences
> between 1.1.5.1 and 2.0R, or a bug in the original library.

The 1.1.5.1 version is several releases out of date, had many bugs which
are now fixed and lacked many features.

> 
> Anyway, is anyone else working along this line?  Should we wait for
> some imminent release that will solve all our problems?  Should we
> just continue to slug it out alone?

Work continues on the pthread library adding new features, bug fixes, etc.
Plans are also to roll the current code into the FreeBSD source tree soon.
> 
> dayton

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