drop the pthread conversion project

it has been done recently

3 files changed, 0 insertions, 62 deletions

diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn
index e3d2700d..9fd851cd 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn
@@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ other: language_bindings, gnat, gccgo, perl_python.  -->
 [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/server_overriding" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]]
 [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]]
 [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/nfs" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]]
-[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]]
 [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/smp" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]]
 [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/sound" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]]
 [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/disk_io_performance" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]]
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn
index d9a426be..fdcdc396 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn
@@ -47,18 +47,6 @@ In his [[2011 GSoC project|2011]], Jérémie Koenig designed and began
 implementing an object-oriented interface; see his [[Java status
 page|user/jkoenig/java]] for details.
 
-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|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
-runtime environment or the actual programs) is only possible when not using the
-standard Hurd server libraries at all -- i.e. when binding at MIG stub level or
-interface definition level.
-
 The task is to create easy to use Hurd bindings for a language of the student's
 choice, and some example servers to prove that it works well in practice. This
 project will require gaining a very good understanding of the various Hurd
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn
deleted file mode 100644
index 2270c774..00000000
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn
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@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
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-Inc."]]
-
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-any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
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-is included in the section entitled
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-
-[[!meta title="Convert Hurd Libraries and Servers to pthreads"]]
-
-[[!tag open_issue_libpthread]]
-
-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.
-
-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|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.
-
-(Thus it's impossible to use the [Hurd
-libfuse](http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/#libfuse) with any FUSE modules
-depending on pthreads for example.)
-
-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
-transition, they will have to be fixed as well.
-
-This project requires relatively little Hurd-specific knowledge. Experience
-with multithreaded programming in general and pthreads in particular is
-required, though.
-
-Possible mentors: Barry deFreese (bddebian), Samuel Thibault (youpi)
-
-Exercise: Try to fix one of the outstanding issues with the work done so far.
-It's not yet complete, and there hasn't been much debugging yet, so it should
-not be too hard to find something needing improvement -- but if you don't see
-anything obvious, feel free to talk to us about an alternative exercise task.