Fwd: Re: Native JDK with libthr/libkse

Antony T Curtis antony.t.curtis at ntlworld.com
Tue Jun 3 23:31:27 PDT 2003


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On Tuesday 03 June 2003 3:49 pm, Tom Samplonius wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > I was more interested in the statement that "jdk is only guaranteed
> > to work with libc_r" that one of the Java developers posted.  I
> > took it to mean that the implementation of our jdk is geared
> > towards libc_r (perhaps knowing internal stuff about how libc_r
> > works).  I don't want anything like that to stop us, and we
> > can add some common APIs to the threads libraries if needed
> > to support it.
>
>   I don't think jdk uses any libc_r internals.  I believe it is just that
> jdk1.4.1 is a very large and very complex application, and the jdk
> developers don't want to have to track libkse/libthr issues when jdk1.4.1
> is still beta and requires plenty more work.  I know the Java developers
> are trying to get jdk1.4.1 to the point it can pass Sun's TCK, so it can
> be distributed as a binary.

AFAIK, jdk1.3.1 still uses some libc_r internals unless the patch I sent to 
this list and Munehiro Matsuda did more work on is applied.


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Antony T Curtis BSc     Unix Analyst Programmer
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/antony.t.curtis/
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