Re: Threads?

Ben Collins wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 01:39:28PM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
> 
>>The default installation of APR on FreeBSD doesn't have threads. Is 
>>there any plan to support threadless prothon? Bearing in mind that 
>>threads on FreeBSD are not at all reliable?
> 
> 
> Are you serious? I'm just having a hard time believing that an OS that's
> been around as long as FreeBSD can get around without having good thread
> support.

I am serious.

> Can you try recompiling APR with threads and see if prothon even works
> with that?

One of the reasons APR has threads disabled on FreeBSD is because Apache 
2 just plain doesn't work threaded on FreeBSD. So, even if prothon 
works, it doesn't bode well for the future.

Cheers,

Ben.

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