Re: [Corelinux-develop] Ok, heading for some releases

[Hans - D. <dul...@eg...>]

On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Frank V. Castellucci wrote:

> Hans Dulimarta wrote:
> >
> > "Frank V. Castellucci" wrote:
> > >
> > > Hans,
> > >
> > > Is libcl++ ready for a release? I haven't had a chance to try out the
> > > Thread stuff, did it work the way you expected?
> >
> > threadTerminated handler works ok. At least for updating the
> > thread state
> > part. Cleaning via destroying context is not working. But, I
>
> What does this mean? Thread::destroyThreadContext does not work?
>

It does work but cannot be called from threadTerminated.

> > guess since
> > we are going to implement thread pool, this clean up is not
> > really necessary.
> > We can reuse the space and "return" it to the pool.
>
> We may want to talk about heap management somewhere in here, I've done
> some neat things with activity escalation and generational heaps. The
> work was more for garbage collection but was such a simple design that
> it may be re-used in this case. What are you thoughts about the whole
> Thread pool thing?

For me thread pool implementation has a lower priority than the individual
signal handling capability. But, if you can share your heap management
code here, it'll be great.

>
> >
> > I'm now working on the individual thread signal handling.
> >
> > >
> > > The libcorelinux release will be 0.4.31 yes?
> >
> > Yes from me.
>
> Ok, I will assume that at anypoint in time during the week that you
> don't have things partially working, that whatever is checked in works.
> Of course if something didn't work before, I don't expect it will work
> now :)

Yes, you can assume that.

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