Steve Byrne wrote:
> > The Blackdown folks seem to be adding a lot of value back to the Java
> > port. How many of their patches have gone back into the Java tree?
>
> All told (from the 1.1.x days), a lot. Many of them are going into 1.3.
People are talking about 1.3? Not 1.2.3?
Does this imply another massive set of changes to the Java platform?
> Linux threads are not Solaris threads, and the
> implementation naturally assumes that Solaris threads are available. The
> Solaris equivalent of pthread_cond_wait will return if an interrupt occurs;
> Linux pthreads won't, so all kinds of kludgery has to go on to get around this
> problem.
Meaning, it appears, that all Unix vendors licensing Java get to
experience similar pain. And as far as I can tell, the Blackdown
(pre)releases are out ahead of everyone else's.
Nathan
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