Martin Burnicki wrote: > Danny Mayer wrote: >> Hans Jørgen Jakobsen wrote: >>> Why are threads not used on UNIX? >>> /hjj >> The experience with BIND 9 shows that various implementations of >> pthreads are flawed and therefore compiling BIND9 with threads remains >> an option. While I am willing to undertake the work to use threads it's >> a much harder problem to make it optional. > > Hm, I'd really like to know what the limitations/problems with pthread are. > > I'm assuming BIND would make heavy usage of threads, whereas ntpd would > basically only have to start one other thread to do the DNS lookups (except > the special Windows things, which have already been implemented as > threads). >
Yes. > There are no special requirements except for blocking critical sections > while some parameters are updated. > Yes. > This would also simplify a fix for bug #987: http://bugs.ntp.org/987 > Yes. Danny > > Martin _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
