On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Chris Mason wrote:

> All-
> 
>      Has anyone been succesful at using Pthreads (POSIX Threads) on
> NetBSD/mac68k?  I've seen pthreads implementations around
> (http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/proven/pthreads.html) that refernce NetBSD,
> but they all seem to refer specifically to i386.  

Is/has anybody been working on kernel-level threads? I get the impression 
that most of the hard work has been done by CSRG already.

>From the daemon book (pp80-81):

"The layout of process state was completely reorganized in 4.4BSD. The 
goal was to support multiple threads that share an address space and 
other resources. [SNIP...] The 4.4BSD distribution did not have 
kernel-thread support enabled, primarily because the C library had not 
been rewritten to be able to handle multiple threads."

If a group effort needs to be done to go over the entire C library and 
make sure all is reentrant, I'm sure people would be into it if we split 
it up among enough programmers. I'd be in.

But I guess this belongs in some other list (which one?) since it 
certainly isn't Mac specific.

Threads would be a big plus for NetBSD.

> 
> TIA,
> 
> -c
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