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FSU Pthreads V2.7 (for SPARC and ix86)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Dec 9 01:57:07 1995
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 00:28:10 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: mueller@informatik.hu-berlin.de (Frank Mueller)
Subject: FSU Pthreads V2.7 (for SPARC and ix86)
Organization: Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
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We are happy to announce the latest release of the FSU Pthreads library.
The new release mainly includes bug fixes and support for:
FreeBSD 2.x
SCO 3.x
The modified Gnu malloc sources are now part of the release. Don't forget to compile and link with them!
Also, the bare-machine implementation source for the SPARC (see WWW page) are now merged in.
Below is the full text for the release.
Let us know if there are any problems.
Frank Mueller E-Mail: mueller@informatik.hu-berlin.de WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~mueller
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``A Library Implementation of POSIX Threads for the SPARC / ix86'', Version 2.7
The PART (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project) is happy to announce a new
release of the C sources of the Pthreads library.
ftp-site: ftp.cs.fsu.edu
internet#: 128.186.121.114
directory: /pub/PART
files: pthreads.tar.Z, pthreads_serf92.ps.Z, pthreads_usenix93.ps.Z,
pthreads_interface.ps.Z, rtoss94.ps.Z, pthreads_tr94-091.ps.Z
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WWW URL: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~mueller/projects.html
There is also a Pthreads mailing list distributing information about
new releases, bug patches and related issues. You can subscribe to the
mailing list either
- - by sending e-mail to "mueller@informatik.hu-berlin.de" with the
subject line "subscribe-pthreads". [If your local mailer inserts an incorrect
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"http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~mueller/bin/pthreads-form.cgi"]
As part of the PART project we have been designing and implementing a
library package of preemptive threads which is compliant with POSIX
1003.4a Draft 6. A description of the interface for our Pthreads
library is also available on ftp. Our implementation is limited to the
Sun SPARC architecture and SunOS 4.1.x or Solaris. We do not make any
use of Sun's light-weight processes to achieve better performance
(with one I/O-related exception).
What's NEW:
.bug fix: pthread_siggeset2set ambiguous evaluation order
(problem and fix by: capints!mariska@relay.NL.net (Mariska Hoogenboom)).
.bug fix: SCO 3.2 gettimeofday and timerisset incompatible, macro redef.
.bug fix: FreeBSD io.S result from syscalls read/write mistakenly cleared
(problem and fix by: wagner@logware.de (Olaf Wagner)).
.bug fix: negative errno returned in io.S for Linux
.bug fix: ifdefs for new POSIX types in FreeBSD 2.x and SCO 3.x
.bug fix: malloc-package ifdefs for Linux and SCO
.VME MiThOS changes included (STAND_ALONE)
.malloc lib included
The following features are included in the current implementation:
- -from POSIX.4a:
.thread management: initializing, creating, joining, exiting, and
destroying threads
.synchronization: mutual exclusion, condition variables
.thread-specific data
.thread priority scheduling: priority management, preemptive
priority scheduling (FIFO, RR),
mutex priority ceilings through stack resource policy (SRP)
.signals: signal handlers, synchronous and asynchronous wait for
signals, masking and sending of signals, sleep, long jumps
.cancellation: cleanup handlers, asynchronous, synchronous, and
disabled interruptability.
- -from POSIX.4:
.timers: nanosleep, read clock, priority scheduling bounds
- -from POSIX.1:
.synchronous I/O for threads (I/O only blocks current thread, not process)
- -others:
.perverted scheduling for debugging (MUT_SWITCH, RR_SWITCH, RAND_SWITCH)
.stack overflow check causes signal (optional STACK_CHECK)
.graceful handling of stack overflow (optional SIGNAL_STACK)
.repeated inclusion of header files prevented
The support is currently being extended to include:
- -from POSIX.4a:
.draft 10 upgrade
.mutex priority inheritance / priority ceiling emulation protocol
.reentrant functions
.process control: fork, wait, waitpid
(The above functions are not supported for threads. Their semantics
is whatever UNIX semantics for processes is. Consequently, a fork
will fork another process with ALL threads being duplicated, not
just the executing thread as required by POSIX.4a.
The functions exec and _exit behave as required without any
change, i.e. the UNIX process level semantics for these functions
is also adequate for threads.)
- -from POSIX.4:
.asynchronous I/O for threads
.asynchronous timer objects
- -other:
.heap memory pools
The current scheduling policies are strict priority scheduling
(according to POSIX.4a FIFO scheduling) which preempts when signals
are caught or round-robin (RR scheduling) which changes context to
another thread of the same priority after a time-slice of 20msec.
Besides asynchronous delivery of signals, context switches only occur
where required by the priority policy, e.g. when resources (mutexes)
are locked etc.
The current implementation has been tested and used as a base to
implement our own (new) runtime-system for an Ada compiler (Verdix).
But we do not make any claims about the completeness or correctness of
this implementation.
(C)OPYRIGHT NOTICE:
Copyright (C) 1992, the Florida State University
Distributed by the Florida State University under the terms of the
GNU Library General Public License.
This file is part of Pthreads.
Pthreads is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation (version 2).
Pthreads is distributed "AS IS" in the hope that it will be
useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
See the GNU Library General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
License along with Pthreads; see the file COPYING. If not, write
to the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge,
MA 02139, USA.
Report problems and direct all questions to:
pthreads-bugs@ada.cs.fsu.edu
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Frank Mueller E-Mail: mueller@informatik.hu-berlin.de WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~mueller
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