Threading in the future?

[Jett Tayer]

hmmm lets all stick to the original plan. FreeBSD kernel on GNU  
userland.
so i should say we make less modifications on the freebsd kernel if  
at all possible.

what do u think?

/jett


On 11 13, 05, at 2:57 PM, Robert Millan wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:12:00AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>>
>> Then I think we should make as less as possible modifications to the
>> FreeBSD kernel. That means that NPTL is not a good choice, except  
>> if it
>> is supported upstream for the linux compatibility layers. Then, about
>> the others threading methods kFreeBSD offers, I don't know which  
>> one in
>> the best one. We have to look at the changes that are need in the  
>> glibc
>> to support them, but AFAIK, glibc is not really portable on that  
>> point.
>
> They also need work to build on Glibc, even as standalone  
> libraries.  Like on
> Glibc, the line separating libc and libpthread is not very clear.
>