Re: On pthreads [Was: Re: I was accepted to LokiHack '99 at Atlanta Linux Showcase]

1999-10-06 Thread Daniel Eischen
Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > On [19991006 04:02], Brian F. Feldman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >What do you all think about > >http://www.FreeBSD.org/~green/OpenBSD.libc_r.cancel.patch > >? I isolated the set of commits that added cancelling to OpenBSD's > >libc_r, and it seems (since they too

Re: On pthreads [Was: Re: I was accepted to LokiHack '99 at Atlanta Linux Showcase]

1999-10-06 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On [19991006 04:02], Brian F. Feldman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >What do you all think about >http://www.FreeBSD.org/~green/OpenBSD.libc_r.cancel.patch >? I isolated the set of commits that added cancelling to OpenBSD's >libc_r, and it seems (since they took it from us originally :) it >should be

Re: On pthreads [Was: Re: I was accepted to LokiHack '99 at Atlanta Linux Showcase]

1999-10-04 Thread Daniel Eischen
Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > >We could implement pthread_cancel rather easily (I have some crufty > >patches lying around somewhere to do it), but it wouldn't be nearly > >POSIX compliant. Some non-cancellable routines would be cancellable, > >and vice-versa I think too.

On pthreads [Was: Re: I was accepted to LokiHack '99 at Atlanta Linux Showcase]

1999-10-04 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On [19991004 13:04], Daniel Eischen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Do you mean pthreads? >> >> If so, we still do not have a pthread_cancel in our libc_r which could >> greatly make things harder to implement. I think OpenBSD has one and we >> might do well to look at that one. > >We could implemen

Re: I was accepted to LokiHack '99 at Atlanta Linux Showcase

1999-10-04 Thread Daniel Eischen
> Do you mean pthreads? > > If so, we still do not have a pthread_cancel in our libc_r which could > greatly make things harder to implement. I think OpenBSD has one and we > might do well to look at that one. We could implement pthread_cancel rather easily (I have some crufty patches lying aroun

Re: I was accepted to LokiHack '99 at Atlanta Linux Showcase

1999-10-04 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On [19991004 11:42], Stephen Hocking ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >I would like to point out that they use the SDL library for many of their >products. We have this in our ports section, but it does have a bug in that we >get a threads crash when doing sound & video simultaneously. The aliens demo

Re: I was accepted to LokiHack '99 at Atlanta Linux Showcase

1999-10-04 Thread Stephen Hocking
I would like to point out that they use the SDL library for many of their products. We have this in our ports section, but it does have a bug in that we get a threads crash when doing sound & video simultaneously. The aliens demo displays this fault rather well. Sometimes it works, other times

Re: I was accepted to LokiHack '99 at Atlanta Linux Showcase

1999-10-03 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On [19991002 04:18], Jason Nordwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >This wouldn't seem -hackers worthy, except I offfered to try to port >it to freebsd-current. I think the things you might need to have [the tools as they called it] might be handy to know. And I think this is more hackers material.

I was accepted to LokiHack '99 at Atlanta Linux Showcase

1999-10-01 Thread Jason Nordwick
This wouldn't seem -hackers worthy, except I offfered to try to port it to freebsd-current. I thought that this would be interesting to people and that I might be able to get some advice from around here. Following is the email thread that happened between Scott Draeker (president of Loki) and S