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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2010-09-21 11:45:06 +0200
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2010-09-21 11:45:43 +0200
commit3f11d947b91a9c5f5eaa743ebb9dd38e34a625a4 (patch)
tree4b9461c9cc5ef96bba3ef6058e394a573c3b2048 /community/gsoc/project_ideas
parent33f4538291c2921f8a54320a2dd3625e9657388d (diff)
libpthread: New.
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-rw-r--r--community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn8
-rw-r--r--community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn5
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn
index a27b0d30..460b380b 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -42,8 +43,9 @@ use the latter approach, and can serve as a good example.
There is another possible reason for preferring lower-level bindings:
Presently, the Hurd server libraries use the cthreads threading library, which
-predates the pthread standard prevalent today. There is a pthread library for
-the Hurd as well, but it's not possible to use both cthreads and pthreads in
+predates the pthread standard prevalent today. There is a
+[[pthread library for the Hurd|libpthread]]
+as well, but it's not possible to use both cthreads and pthreads in
the same executable. Thus, until
[[porting_the_Hurd_libraries_to_pthreads|community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads]]
is finished, implementing bindings for any language that uses pthreads (in the
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn
index a33187f6..2270c774 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn
@@ -17,11 +17,12 @@ The Hurd was originally created at a time when the [pthreads
standard](http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/pthread.h.html)
didn't exist yet. Thus all Hurd servers and libraries are using the old
[[cthreads|hurd/libcthreads]] package that came with [[microkernel/Mach]],
-which is not compatible with [[pthreads|hurd/libpthread]].
+which is not compatible with pthreads.
Not only does that mean that people hacking on Hurd internals have to deal with
a non-standard thread package, which nobody is familiar with. Although a
-pthreads implementation for the Hurd was created in the meantime, it's not
+[[pthreads implementation for the Hurd|libpthread]]
+was created in the meantime, it's not
possible to use both cthreads and pthreads in the same program. Consequently,
pthreads can't presently be used in any Hurd servers -- including translators.