Subject: Re: itimer, pthreads, and checkpointing
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
From: John F. Woods <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/15/1999 17:53:08
> > 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".

I am about to embark on porting a threaded Windows application to linux.
I would really rather port it to NetBSD.  If there's any help you can usefully
accept, I'm offering to help out.