On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 03:37:22PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Mark Newton wrote:
>
> > > in there. I've got all the other posix functions, though. Are
> > > you using Linuxthreads?
> >
> > Everyone is using Linuxthreads now; it's the default.
>
> I didn't think so - it's still a port. We *support* linuxthreads out of
> the box, but don't install it.
I think we're talking about different things.
There's a linuxthreads port, yes, but that's something which provides
FreeBSD's compile-time environment with libraries which duplicate the
Linux threading APIs.
There's also the capability for Linux executables to use threads under
emulation. That's there "out of the box" by default.
The linuxthreads port is only necessary if you want to use "The Linux Way"
of doing threads in a piece of software you're building for FreeBSD; It
doesn't make much difference to emulation.
[ at least, I think that's how it works -- Marcel can ping me if I'm lying
:-) ]
- mark
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