Fwd: Re: Native JDK with libthr/libkse

[Daniel Eischen]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Tom Samplonius wrote:
> ...
> > And I encourage the java developers to let us threads guys know
> > what they're having problems with.  It has been stated that
> > jdk is not guaranteed to work with anything but libc_r, so
> > contact us over at threads at .  We want to see a fast and stable
> > jdk as much as anyone else does.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Dan Eischen
> 
> 
>   But the last that I've seen on the threads@ list is that libkse's signal
> handling is not finished, and both libthr and libkse have incomplete SMP
> support.  I've been waiting to hear whether one of these has reached a
> "finished" state, in order that a test build of jdk on FreeBSD 5 is not a
> total waste...

SMP libkse support should be complete.  We are working on signal
handling now, but it's fudged to mostly work.  Mozilla, KDE,
and openoffice all run with libkse.

-- 
Dan Eischen