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| author | Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> | 2013-05-11 14:32:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> | 2013-05-11 14:32:54 +0200 |
| commit | ba390db95f9581977bb65caa180655f94dd957d3 (patch) | |
| tree | 5cfec394fe6c2bdb095f610f650d75c9dd72a27b /contributing | |
| parent | fe824301b5b4b9bab49c95aaa9c15ba2aa27efca (diff) | |
Added Thomas DiModica
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| -rw-r--r-- | contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn index c7b1dbda..a22cc56d 100644 --- a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn +++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ else=" [[!cut id="full_news" text=""" -At the end of the last 2 quarters, Samuel Thibault pushed the [pthread patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00088.html) from Vicente Hernando Ara, Barry de Freese, Thomas Schwinge, Richard Braun and Samuel and others to the different upstream packages, finally enabling modern pthreads for the Hurd, which makes it possible to implement full Hurd bindings for languages which require pthreads, so for example [PyHurd](http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pyhurd/) can profit from the Hurd libraries instead of having to rely on low-level Mach bindings to implement Hurd features like translators. +At the end of the last 2 quarters, Samuel Thibault pushed the [pthread patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00088.html) from Vicente Hernando Ara, Barry de Freese, Thomas DiModica, Thomas Schwinge, Richard Braun and Samuel and others to the different upstream packages, finally enabling modern pthreads for the Hurd, which makes it possible to implement full Hurd bindings for languages which require pthreads, so for example [PyHurd](http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pyhurd/) can profit from the Hurd libraries instead of having to rely on low-level Mach bindings to implement Hurd features like translators. The switch to pthreads has been attempted multiple times, but in the past it always hit some tricky issues which proved to be a roadblock. Last year, Richard Braun took up the task again and finished the transition of the Hurd libraries and glibc to pthreads with libpthread. |