Adam Lebsack <lebsack@mac.com> writes:
> On Monday, January 7, 2002, at 02:14 PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > Adam Lebsack <lebsack@mac.com> writes:
> >> Well, I removed the mit-pthreads distfile and tried again.  No go.
> >
> > Use something other than mit-pthreads. It isn't very good. There are
> > other threads packages in pkgsrc.
> 
> Well, that's not a very productive way of looking at it, "it's broken,
> so let's not fix it and use something else."  :)

It isn't fixable -- it would need a rewrite. Also, NetBSD is going to
have a native pthreads implementation using kernel assists (scheduler
activations in this case) pretty soon, so the effort of a rewrite
doesn't seem like a good idea.

> Also, mysql-server has mit-pthreads grafted into it, so unless I were
> to hack up the mysql-server build to use something else, mit-threads
> should be fixed, and I am just wondering if anybody has any insight on
> the problem.

I'd recommend someone make it use something else. :)

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