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authorantrik <antrik@users.sf.net>2009-03-11 22:51:43 +0100
committerantrik <antrik@users.sf.net>2009-03-12 09:16:52 +0100
commitfd602020974b7edbcc8b43b969c98e68f3afdf39 (patch)
tree060cc92819a83db54f357f92edbbb17774d6af20 /community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn
parentbc00b2387b5c6c10e78331c14b4a0094c4751828 (diff)
Pthreads conversion GSoC task: Merge notes about previous work
Barry's work is available in the savannah task, so no need to mention it explicitely.
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@@ -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.