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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-09-21 11:45:06 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-09-21 11:45:43 +0200 |
| commit | 3f11d947b91a9c5f5eaa743ebb9dd38e34a625a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b9461c9cc5ef96bba3ef6058e394a573c3b2048 /community/gsoc/project_ideas | |
| parent | 33f4538291c2921f8a54320a2dd3625e9657388d (diff) | |
libpthread: New.
Diffstat (limited to 'community/gsoc/project_ideas')
| -rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn | 5 |
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. |