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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: Posix thread library
From:       Doug Rabson <dfr () nlsys ! demon ! co ! uk>
Date:       1995-03-31 20:27:24
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On Wed, 29 Mar 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > 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?
> 
> That's a good question! :-)
> 
> Every USENIX I talk to the thread god (Chris Provenzano) about it, who
> either says that something is imminent on this front or that we need
> to decide whether or not we're going to go for a fully thread-safe
> libc.  The libc changes entail either a compile-time switch to enable
> it or leaving it *always* on so that main() is just your first
> autocreated thread.
> 
> Either way, once we decide how we want it to go them we need to get
> Chris or someone to finally bring the changes in.  How important are
> ptreads to folks?  David, do you remember the conclusions we reached
> when we last talked to Chris in N.O.?  Did we reach any conclusions? :-)

Well some of the Fresco demos only work with threads support...

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