>>>>> Steve Byrne writes:
Steve> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nelson Minar) writes:
>> Java hits threads very hard. In particular, the native threads port of
>> Java stresses the glibc threading framework (and the kernel!) more
>> than most systems. So you have to contend not just with portability
>> problems, not just bugs in the Java sources, but bugs and misfeatures
>> in the Linux implementation too.
Steve> Right. LinuxThreads doesn't completely play well with signals. This
Steve> causes race conditions. It's messy. We may end up including a (slightly)
Steve> custom libpthreads with the release to work around these issues.
Jürgen told me already about some of the problems with LinuxThreads.
Could anyone from the blackdown team come up with a detailed
explanation what's broken - and what's needed? As I'm one of the
glibc developers[1] I might try to help get some of these into glibc.
Andreas
Footnotes:
[1] But I don't know enough about linuxthreads to help directly.
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