Mono XSP & mod_mono support on FreeBSD

Daniel Eischen deischen at freebsd.org
Sat Apr 28 14:56:01 UTC 2007


On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Dominic Marks wrote:

> Hackers,
>
> Currently XSP (Mono's ASP.NET implementation) does not run on FreeBSD.
>
> There is a brief post here about the reasons why from David Xu:
>
>   http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-threads/2005-March/002944.html
>
> Since that message is over 2 years old I hoped that it might no longer be the 
> case, but when I attempted to run the application it does not work. This is 
> the case if you use libc_r, libthr or libpthread. I was using 6.2-STABLE, if 
> it matters.
>
> I am interested if anyone knows if this is likely to ever work.  I am more 
> than happy to test patches for anyone who wanted to have a go at it. It seems 
> that there was a previous effort to get it ported but that seems to have run 
> to this issue and stopped.

Process shared mutexes and condition variables will never be supported
in 6.x.  They may occur at some point in 7.x.  mono should be fixed so
that it respects _POSIX_THREAD_PROCESS_SHARED.

-- 
DE


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