Re: Call for Developers! Userland threading

[Peter da Silva <peter-dragonfly@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     I was kinda thinking of Peter da Silva or Jeffrey Hsu to lead this effort,
>     but I don't know what kind of time commitment people have.

Guess I can give up Usenet for a few months. :)

We should probably agree on a common name for the thread struct that 
isn't likely to overlap anyone else's likely names for thread structs: 
lwkt_thread, lwthread, lw_thread, something like that. maybe grab some 
mindspace: dragonthread?

> 	      /*
> 	       * Use the convenient mostly pre-built message stored in the
> 	       * userthread structure
> 	       */
> 	      msg = &curthread->td_sysmsg;

msg = &curthread->td_sysmsg[READ] or something like that, no?

> 	* (later on) development of a kernel-supported signal infrastructure
> 	  for proper POSIX signal handling.

First pass would be synchronous signal handlers, so caught signals are 
delivered as messages, otherwise they kill or ignore as now?

>     I will be focusing on the kernel side of things.  I would like those
>     interested in doing the userland threading project to focus on the
>     userland side of things.

dragonfly.userapi?