On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, David Xu wrote: > I will go away today due to some unpleasant person attack to me, in the past, > I have made lots of work in FreeBSD threading work, this includes kernel > threading in earlier stage and thread libraries later, and gdb support for > these new thread libraries from kernel to userland everywhere, spent lots > of time to work in libpthread, and later make libthr to be best performance > library for mysql and possible other applications developed on Linux and make > it run on most platforms we current support. > because the work load was large, I admit I have made some coding > mistakes which some people think it is serious while other don't think so, > I don't think it is not fixable, time goes and things will be fixed, think > about FreeBSD comes from a 4.x which is ignorant about true kernel based > thread, changing to current thread based kernel is really a painful thing to > do, even with recently 6.1, I still have fixed lots of thread suspension race > which I think is obscure, of course, my work does not stop on threading, > recent, I also have added signal queue, POSIX message queue and timer, > made AIO MP-safe, these are all work-in-progress, but I am sorry, the attack > made to me is very harmful, I feel I can not recover from such disaster, > working on FreeBSD is no longer fun. I will still use FreeBSD, but no > contribution, current it is default OS I use in daily work from desktop to > notebook. David, please, do not leave FreeBSD development! Your work is very important for FreeBSD. Igor Sysoev http://sysoev.ru/en/Received on Thu Mar 30 2006 - 07:00:07 UTC
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