On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 03:44:49PM -0500, Bill Abt wrote: > On Tuesday 11 December 2001 18:03 pm, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > > > I'm not sure how portable NGPT is. Also, we already have a partial > > Actually, being based originally on GNU Pth, it's pretty portable. There are > very few dependencies on Linux except for one module. That's nice. > > > implementation of pthreads, it's located at > > > http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/pthreads/ > > There's nothing there right now.... All code is in CVS, there isn't much more. > > > if you're interested. Most of > > > the things missing here are hurd and mach specific things as signalling, > > > stack allaction and some other things. Those things also need to be done > > > with NGPT. > > Are you saying that this stuff is still missing from the kernel? I certainly > hope not ;-) Userlevel stack allocation is handled within NGPT already. > Looking at the threading interface posted on the Hurd website, I don't think > it will take much to port NGPT over to Hurd. I'm not sure at which threating interface you are looking. Remind that hurd isn't a traditional unix-kernel, but a colleciton of servers running on a microkernel (mach for now). Mach doesn't have support for signals, so that's done in glibc using a special signal thread. > > > > > > AFAIK Roland wants a long-term implementation which is thightly with > > > glibc, with sysdeps for the Hurd and linux. I don't know if NGPT matches > > > that requirement. > > We're already tightly coupled with glibc (but not in the build itself) and as > I said earlier, sysdeps for the Hurd should be a snap... If you want to volunteer porting NGPT I'm not going to stop you. I also don't know what Roland's opinion is, I like to hear that. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects.net
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