Backport of pthread fixes from 5.x to 6.0.

Daniel Eischen deischen at freebsd.org
Tue Feb 1 11:28:38 PST 2005


On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Petri Helenius wrote:

> John Baldwin wrote:
>
> >I'd like to backport most of the thread fixes for libpthread from 6.0 to
> >RELENG_5 before 5.4.  I've been testing this patch locally and just wanted to
> >make sure backporting it was ok with the folks on this list.  Patch is at
> >http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/pthread_5.patch
> >
> >
> >
> I browsed trough the patch and couldn't locate the new mutex operations
> in there. Are they somewhere in the pipeline and could you combine them
> into your patch?

They aren't (in userland) even in -current; they exist in perforce
in a forked branch of libpthread.  You'll have to wait for that
because it doesn't yet support all of the stuff that libpthread does.

-- 
DE



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