KSE does not appear to work when I run FreeBSD 6.2 on VMware

[Julian Elischer]

Kip Macy wrote:
> I can't speak to your problem directly.
> 
> Two (somewhat) relevant comments:
> 
> - For security reasons procfs is not mounted by default.
> - KSE is being supplanted by libthr.


He's not using libkse but writing his own concurrancy app by using the 
primatives.

My question is whether he is on  amd64 or i386


> 
> -Kip
> 
> 
> On 10/6/07, Akshay Kawale <freebsd_noob at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm writing a small thread library based on KSE.
>> I've got some initial code ready that performs an upcall when I create a new KSE.
>>
>> However, this code only works on a physical machine. When I run FreeBSD on VMware, my program does not appear to perform the upcall. I know that it's not upcalling because I intentionally seg fault in my upcall function. (I also put a gdb breakpoint at the upcall function, which does not hit).
>>
>> I've tried this on a stock 6.2 RELEASE Kernel (Physical Machine) and on 6.2 RELEASE and 6.2 RELEASE-p8 (VM).
>>
>> My /proc does not appear to be set up, so I can't use 'truss' to figure out if the KSE Syscalls are actually being called.
>>
>> truss: cannot open /proc/curproc/mem: No such file or directory
>> truss: cannot open1 /proc/1044/mem: No such file or directory
>>
>> I wrote a small threaded program using pthreads, and that appears to work ok on VMware.
>>
>> Does anyone have an idea what could be wrong?
>> Any suggestions to help me debug?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> - Akshay
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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