Hi! On Thu, 8 May 2014 11:12:40 -0700 (PDT), Roland McGrath <rol...@hack.frob.com> wrote: > As part of my ongoing work on the NaCl port (NaCl == Google Native Client), > I'm now embarking on porting pthreads (i.e. nptl/). This will be the first > time the NPTL code gets used in a non-Linux port.
Isn't the Debian/kFreeBSD FBTL based on NPTL? <http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3Calpine.LNX.2.00.1307102021050.4232%40contest.felk.cvut.cz%3E> $ svn cat svn://svn.debian.org/glibc-bsd/trunk/glibc-ports/TODO.fbtl | head -n 5 fbtl - based on nptl original dir is pruned snapshot of nptl (and nptl_db) in HEAD as of 20130621 > There are lots of > Linuxoid assumptions scattered about the code, which I will be teasing > apart. There is also lots of code that doesn't really assume Linux, but > just assumes that there is a futex facility. As NPTL is fundamentally > based on the futex facility, I don't think there will ever be an attempt to > port it to a system without such a facility. (NaCl has a futex facility > and the Hurd's GNU Mach might grow one someday.) Regarding the Hurd: <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/open_issues/nptl.html>; <http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3Calpine.LNX.2.00.1308021035160.5570%40contest.felk.cvut.cz%3E>; latest revision (v16) of futex patch for GNU Mach: <http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3C1389969125-3852-1-git-send-email-mpr%40hi.t-com.hr%3E>. > There are a bunch of things under nptl/sysdeps/ that don't seem like [...] > > Does that sound reasonable? It does to me. Grüße, Thomas
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