On Sunday 19 February 2012 4:33:35 pm Amit Kulkarni wrote: > > As you probably noticed, rthreads (kernel threads) are now enabled by > > default. However there is no guarantee that this will last if we can't > > fix everything that needs fixing in time. > > > > When working with ports and when you remove/add a thread related patch > > (like removing an old userland threads hack) it is _mandatory_ that you > > get a review and OK from sthen@ naddy@ espie@ and/or myself. > > The reason is that we are keeping track of these changes in case we need > > to revert to using userland threads. > > > > For the porters that already have committed such diffs to the ports > > tree, please get in touch with us so we can add it to our tracking list. > > > > Any question, ask the people previously listed. > > Thank you! > > > > PS : test! test! test! we _do_ want rthreads to stay :) > > There is some problem building sun's jdk 1.6 (devel/jdk/1.6) and > lang/mono. Note this is with stock current (src,xenocara,ports) as of > friday feb 17... CC'ing kurt@ and robert@. Can somebody look in there > if they have time?
Thanks for the report. rthreads doesn't have functional pthread_suspend_np() support yet, so ports using it will not work. That covers most garbage collection based applications like the jdk and mono. When pthread_suspend_np() is functional we can try these applications again. -Kurt
