On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: > > > > And when are COMPAT_LINUX_THREADS and VM_STACK going away? > > > > I have no idea. I was hoping that at least COMPAT_LINUX_THREADS > > would go away before the branch. I don't have commit authority, > > so it isn't up to me. > > > > hmm did you send me the patches? > > I can certainly do it now..(given a patch set to apply) > > I just realised however, that if we make them go away we break > SMP right? > hmm I guess we only break it for programs that woudltry use it > which should be none if you run SMP :-)
It doesn't break SMP (I'm running an SMP kernel with COMPAT_LINUX_THREADS). All that happens is that linux_clone() returns an error. Surprisingly StarOffice still works fairly well. -- Doug Rabson Mail: d...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
