On Tuesday 02 October 2001 06:03 pm, Rodrigo Parra Novo wrote: > > > - server/mpm/ (adding a new MPM for AtheOS, which would resemble the > > > a lot the Win32 MPM) > > > > You will need this, but I would look at mpmt_os2, which provides a > > multi-process multi-threaded MPM which should be basically portable. It > > may use a few native OS/2 APIs, but most of it should be using APR. > > Nice. I took a look into each of the MPMs. mpmt_os2 and threaded > seemed to be the best candidates. In fact, this quick search made > believe that it should probably be possible to use the threaded MPM, and > the only necessary changes regarding threading would be inside > srclib/apr/threadproc/
Yeah, as long as you have fork(), threaded should work just fine for you. I would suggest worker personally. It has a more scalable accept model IMHO. > > > - srclib/apr/ (addding new directories for AtheOS, where necessary, > > > using the unix/ directory in the "common" places) > > > > Exactly. If you have posix implemented, you are done already, the > > autoconf script will choose to use the unix dir, and you can forget about > > everything else. If you have any problems, then you will need to create > > an atheos directory, and you will need to populate it. > > Ok. A further study on the APR directory shows me that the only > places where I will have to add AtheOS hooks are: > > - memory management (AtheOS uses its own shared memory functions, > instead of mmap and friends () > - DSO (likewise) > - multithreading (likewise) > > AtheOS mostly supports the POSIX standard, but this is not one of the > "main targets" of the OS. There is one point that make me feel a bit > uncomfortable, for now - multithreading works in a different manner, inside > AtheOS - I'm still not *completely* sure it will be able to write a well > designed (ie. non-hacked) implementation of apr_thread_t and friends. > errno is unique for each thread, inside AtheOS, for instance. That's fine. We don't really use errno inside of APR. The only place errno is used, is that we return the platform error code from all APR routines. This means that on Unix, we return errno. On Windows, I don't think we ever use errno. > > There is an old out-of-date APRDesign document in the APR directory, that > > will at least help you get started. Other than that, you should join > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] The developers there will help you port APR to > > AtheOS, especially if you can get us an account on a box. Most of the > > APR developers are portability freaks, so one more OS would be awesome! > > Great. This document cleared quite a few doubts regarding the best > way to implement APR inside AtheOS. A (little) question remains. let's > suppose I define "OSDIR" to "atheos", inside configure.in. If this > directory does not exist, inside any of the subdirectories, the default > one (DEFAULT_OSDIR) will be used, right? Exactly. If you need anything else, let me know. I'll do my best to review your patches and get them applied ASAP. I am a big fan of getting APR to support the most platforms possible, and I have been toying with installing AtheOS for a while. This may be the incentive I need. :-) Ryan ______________________________________________________________ Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Covalent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------
