Re: RMS interview on LWN

["B. Douglas Hilton" <bdhilton@charter.net>]

Moritz Schulte wrote:
> Bill Bland <wjb@netpd.com> writes:
>
>
> > 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..."
>
>
> That is right.  All the Hurd server run entirely in User space which
> makes it possible to simply attach gdb to them.
>
>
> > So was RMS talking about a different threads library or something
> > that is planned but not yet implemented?
>
>
> You are right, pthreads isn't ported yet, people are working on that.
> The Hurd currently uses the cthreads library.
>
> 		moritz

I patched GNU Pth a.k.a. "Portable Threads" for Hurd a while back.
It has pretty dismal performance but you can fool around with it if you
want. Links to the source and patch are here:

http://webpages.charter.net/bdhilton/hurd.html

Later!



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