Re: Status FreeBSD ?

Peter Hunnisett wrote:

> Seth Kingsley wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 09:28:40AM -0400, Peter Hunnisett wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>> The CVS still doesnt compile under Freebsd 4.10 and 5.2.1.
>>>>     
>>>
>>
>> I have patches to make it compile, except for wineserver which uses
>> clone(2).  It's not clear to me yet whether a threads API, vfork(), or
>> something similar could be used instead.
>>  
>>
> Not all the AIC merges have been completed yet, but I would actually 
> like to fix it up correctly so that it uses pthreads. The only reason 
> that clone is there is because I was taking the lazy quick route. I 
> assume that pthreads would be the best way forward for FreeBSD anyways.

Correct about the pthreads part (some even use kthreads, but that is 
rather rear)

- Drew