Subject: Re: itimer, pthreads, and checkpointing
To: <>
From: Jeff Roberson <nomad@nop.aliensystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/15/1999 14:29:28
All this talk of threading leaves me wondering if anyone is going to
implement LWPs in NetBSD.  As far as I know the user and process
structures have all been split up accordingly, so that leaves what? Work
on the scheduler and a few syscalls?  Does anyone have plans for this? 

Jeff

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 14:19:04 -0800 (PST)
> From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
> To: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
> Cc: tech-kern@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: itimer, pthreads, and checkpointing
> 
> On 14 Nov 1999, Michael Graff wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to go with #2, and splat on every man page that the interface
> > is temporary, and it _will_ go away in a future release.  I personally
> > need threads _now_  -- without them, I may have to install FreeBSD
> > just so I can do work on bind9 without fighting with the OS.  And I
> > think that would really suck.
> 
> I'd tend to vote for #3 (POSIX), but I'm not in a position to do anything
> about it. :-) I think you should go with #2 unless someone offers to do
> #3. Just mark it as "most likely going away".
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Bill
> 
>