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Re: just checked in
- To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@phys.uva.nl>
- Subject: Re: just checked in
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
- Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 16:58:54 -0400
- cc: libc-hacker@cygnus.com
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998 22:40:51 +0200 (CEST), Mark Kettenis wrote:
> From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
> Date: 06 Sep 1998 09:24:08 -0700
>
> For Hurd: I still have no idea what thread lib you use (any at all?).
> The problem are the macros in dl-error.c. We need a piece of thread
> specific data and I've added this to the same place the malloc data is
> put. Please tell me what you need.
>
>The thread lib used for the Hurd is Mach cthreads, although a
>transition to a to be written pthreads lib is planned. The
>`libc-lock.h' for cthreads lives in `sysdeps/mach/bits', and the use
>is illustrated in `malloc/thread-m.h'.
Query - would it help this transition if I pulled the
atomic-operations code and the semaphore code out of linuxthreads and
made them generic to each processor? This is something I've been
considering for awhile.
zw