On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Jason Evans wrote:
> What am I going to do? My first mandate is to round out the edges of our
> current libc_r and to bring it closer to standards compliance before 4.0.
> Specifically, I know that the following work is necessary:
>
> *) Address and close approximately 20 PRs. The list of PRs I know about
> is: i386/7426, bin/7587, misc/8202, bin/8281, kern/8729, misc/9778,
> misc/9903, misc/10599, bin/10992, kern/11982, kern/11984, bin/13008,
> misc/13117, kern/13644, misc/14264, i386/14383, kern/14685, and
> docs/14858. If there are other PRs that I didn't list that are directly
> related to threads, please let me know about them in private email so
> that I can keep track of them.
I have a few things already fixed, some have gotten stale and need
to be merged into what is now current. Give me another week or so and
I can update them.
>
> *) Signal delivery fixes. I think Daniel Eischen has already taken care of
> this.
Yes, awaiting review by JB.
>
> *) Lacking interfaces, such as pthread_cancel() (mentioned specifically in
> PR bin/7587) need to be implemented.
This is done. Alfred Pearlstein ported NetBSDs (or was it OpenBSD)
pthread_cancel() support. I've reviewed and made comments to it, but
JB probably needs to review it also.
> *) Make a real libpthread, rather than relying on the -pthread linker
> magic. This is high on Daniel Eischen's wish list, so maybe he already
> has something in the works. =)
Not yet :-(. I think libc needs some major work in order to achieve
this. You should put this on your ToDo list :-)
> If you know of other outstanding issues that have a prayer of being
> addressed before 4.0 ships, please speak up.
Good Luck in your new job :) I'd love to be able to do this full-time
and am envious!
Dan Eischen
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