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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Status of POSIX threads
Date: 21 Nov 1995 22:36:07 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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In article <DIEo2L.CqE@tigger.jvnc.net>, John Lucas <jlucas@uvi.edu> wrote:
:I would like to know the status of incorporating POSIX threads into FreeBSD. I
:seached through the mailing list archives at www.freebsd.org (very nice work
:guys!) and found an ongoing discussion of this, but has there been any
:resolution to actually distribute a kernal and/or libc with pthreads in it.
:
:The reason I ask is that I would like to try running Dartmouth's "BlitzMail"
:with FreeBSD, but it requires either NextStep's "cthreads" or POSIX "pthreads"
:in order to operate.
:
:
:| John Lucas jlucas@uvi.edu |
:| Academic Computing NIC Handle: JL423 |
:| University of the Virgin Islands (809) 693-1216 |
:| St. Thomas, VI 00802 http://www.uvi.edu/jlucas.html |
As you noticed there is workm going on in this regard..
for the 'non-integrated' version, send mail to 'proven@freebsd.org'
and try the generic version. (MIT-Pthreads)
We (some volunteers actually) are working on
integrating pthread support (including thread-safe changes in libc)
into FreeBSD.. When they have it all worked out
it will be committed to the tree. Eventually there might be
kernel threading support too, but that is further away..
It will be based on the MIT work and will appear in -current 'soon'.
There is also a pthreads package from a university in Florida
which looked interesting but I haven't seen it personally yet.
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