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| -rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn | 9 |
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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn index a240e5a9..0195bc25 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn @@ -26,10 +26,8 @@ pthreads can't presently be used in any Hurd servers -- including translators. libfuse](http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/#libfuse) with any FUSE modules depending on pthreads for example.) -Some work already has been done once on converting the Hurd servers and -libraries to use pthreads, but that work hasn't been finished. It is available -as [[GNU_Savannah_task 5487]] and can of course be used to base the new work -upon. +Most of the conversion has already been done in previous efforts (see +[[GNU_Savannah_task 5487]]) -- but the tricky parts are still missing. The goal of this project is to have all the Hurd code use pthreads. Should any limitations in the existing pthreads implementation turn up that hinder this @@ -43,6 +41,3 @@ Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi) Exercise: Take some small piece of code using ctreads and convert it to pthreads. - -Note: Barry Defreese already has an almost complete patch: boring parts should -be mostly done, tricky parts are still missing. |