david, thanks for the reference to ptl2. i just read
up on it and it looks a lot better than the other
packages we have (mit-pthreads, unproven,
mysql-mit-pthreads). atleast it's current as the
others are mostly based on mit-pthreads. i'll grab it
and try to link against netbsd. will report back to
you guys.

thanks again.
--- Dave Huang <khym@bga.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, netbsd alpha wrote:
> > > so it's missing syscall-template.S? from the
> source,
> > > it seem's like it's the MIT-pthreads included
> with
> > > mysql.
> 
> Like I had mentioned when reporting the cause of the
> "select now()"
> failure on alpha, perhaps someone should try using
> one of the more
> maintained threading packages, instead of the MIT
> pthreads that comes
> with mysql? Apparently, PTL2 (devel/ptl2 in pkgsrc)
> is an implementation
> of the POSIX threading API that supports preemptive
> scheduling, so it
> might be a good choice. I'm not a mysql user, and am
> really busy with
> other stuff, so I don't really have the
> time/inclination to see what
> it'd take to use another threading package. Perhaps
> someone else might
> take a look at it though :)
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