Re: Status of revivesa

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Sep 29,  9:12am, andrew%hairylemon.org@localhost (Andrew Doran) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Status of revivesa

| On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 09:58:00AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| 
| > On Sep 26,  9:16pm, tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost (Izumi Tsutsui) wrote:
| > -- Subject: Re: Status of revivesa
| > 
| > | How many users will actually be screwed seriously with SA,
| > | rather than pleased by advantages on other features?
| > 
| > Everyone who uses common applications from pkgsrc and will need to re-build.
| > Even perl is broken.
| 
| Do you have any evidence to back that up?
| 
| Here's perl built on 4.0 and running in a 4.0 chroot with -current kernel,
| and with the drop-in compat libpthread I mentioned earlier:

I have not tried that [with the drop-in compat libpthread], but without it
it does not work... Ideally one could construct a libpthread that would
work with both SA and non SA threads [by checking on the availability of
the sa syscalls or even the kernel version] so that people can switch
between current and 4.0 kernels. Is that possible, and is that a better
alternative than revivesa?

christos