On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 02:32:03PM -0500, Nathan Hawkins wrote: > > The goal is porting NPTL for both KFreeBSD and KNetBSD (K for 'kernel of'). > > As of now, temporary solutions are being used: linuxthreads and libpth, > > respectively. > > Are you sure that's the right way to go? Porting NPTL looks likely to > require drastic design changes. NetBSD and FreeBSD kernel support for > threads is completely different than on Linux.
I'm not. But I heard that NPTL is portable and that the Glibc/Hurd/Mach developers intend to use it for Glibc/Hurd/Mach. We can discuss that later though, we're not going to port NPTL yet. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
