Comments about FreeBSD threading from Apache people

[Chris Knight]

Howdy,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Eischen [mailto:eischen at vigrid.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 11 November 2003 12:15
> To: freebsd-threads at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Comments about FreeBSD threading from Apache people
> 
> 
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:56:41AM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > > There's not enough info in STATUS to go on, and in any case it is 
> > > written against libc_r.  Tell them about 
> libpthread^Wlibkse. David 
> > > Xu has tested apache with threading enabled.
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Here is more feedback from the Apache
> > people.  It might be worth
> > taking their experiences into account...
> 
> Have you tried this with libkse?
> 
> I don't care about libc_r; it's being deprecated.
> 
Except you need a production-ready release before you can deprecate it.
Which means a working threads-capable version of Apache on FreeBSD is still
9+ months away :-( It doesn't help when the re team suggest via the
Announcement e-mails that the current production-ready release is still
4.8...
If you want libc_r deprecated sooner, get /etc/libmap.conf installed,
defaulting libc_r to libkse. Most people (including me), just use the
defaults. I've just found libmap.conf by chance, while trying to resolve a
build issue on a program that uses pthread_spinlock_* and POSIX semaphore
calls. You'd have more testers that way too.

> -- 
> Dan Eischen
>

Regards,
Chris Knight
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