From 3c6bca430bd12c761bb1c30888b18776c29f0351 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joachim Nilsson Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:59:29 +0000 Subject: none --- Distrib/PortingIssues.mdwn | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Distrib') diff --git a/Distrib/PortingIssues.mdwn b/Distrib/PortingIssues.mdwn index 078f3410..2688ac17 100644 --- a/Distrib/PortingIssues.mdwn +++ b/Distrib/PortingIssues.mdwn @@ -16,7 +16,11 @@ First of all, see [BtsFiling](http://www.vmlinux.org/twikihttp://LOCATIONHurd/Bt ## Missing pthreads -Nothing. We don't have pthreads yet (It's being worked on). +You can try out Neal Walfields implementation of libpthreads. It will server as our pthreads library until "the one pthreads that will rule them all" in [[GLibC]] has nativ support in the Hurd. Quote is from the mailing lists by Roland [[McGrath]]. + +Neal's lastest tar balls of libpthreads is available at: + +* ## Undefined PIPE\_BUF @@ -30,6 +34,10 @@ If you get Bad File Descriptor error when trying to read from a file (or accessi Every unconditionalized use of PATH\_MAX is a POSIX incompatibility. If there is no upper limit on the length of a path, this symbol is not defined in any header file. Instead, you need to either use a different implementation that does not rely on the length of a string or use sysconf() to query the length at runtime. If sysconf() returns -1, you have to use realloc() to allocate the needed memory dynamically. +## MAX\_PATH + +see PATH\_MAX + ## MAXHOSTNAMELEN see PATH\_MAX -- cgit v1.2.3