On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 12:11:39PM +0100, Bill Bland wrote: > Hello all, > I just read an interview with RMS on http://www.lwn.net/ > and I'm confused about something: RMS says "You can even use GDB to debug > the file system while the system is running--thread-specific breakpoints > allow you to..." This is true. You can also do this with cthreads. > Now I'm still very much a Hurd newbie, but I'm sure I read somewhere that > pthreads isn't ported to the Hurd (I think I read it as the answer > to a faq asking about running gnome on Hurd, and the answer was that > pthreads is a pre-requisite for gnome). So was RMS talking about a > different threads library or something that is planned but not yet > implemented? Or am I just wrong about pthreads not being ported yet? I'm still busy with developing pthreads in my spare time, it's making steady progress. RMS is just talking about what's possible with the design of the Hurd. 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
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