This is a list of things that still need to be done: * fix the signal handling re-entrancy bug that FreeBSD have left in :( * wrap vfork (basically the same as fork()) * wrap itimer() syscalls so that the _ITIMER_SCHED_TIMER can't be trashed * Move the md include stuff so that it appears in /usr/include// That way, gdb's thread stuff can be built sanely and maybe other uthread-aware stuff can make use of it? * Move to using -lpthread. Needs weak symbol support in all as and ld.so implementations. [espie@ looking at unifying toolchain] [weak symbols put into libc. libpthread built. everything works on i386] * Add pthread_condattr_[gs]etpshared() -- and add warn_references pthread_mutexattr_[gs]etpshared() sched_setparam() sched_setscheduler() * Add _warn_references to the schedprio stuff * shouldn't pthread_yield() be marked depreciated? [it is draft 4.] * Add thread stuff to the other archs in libc/arch/; ie change some usages of ENTRY to SYSENTRY in some .S files and add the new macros to their SYS.h. [wip] * Test that thread_init is automatically called on every arch, regardless of whether the exe is statically linked or not. [problems with new egcs?] * Keep a handle on how netbsd are going with their kernel threads [argumnet is that obsd is not multi-processor, so user threads will retain stability and still give reasonable performance. talked to mwp@] * Look into how asynchronous I/O can help us. In particular, the (unimplemented) aio*() functions. [doesn't help very much for 1003.1c.] * Update the libc manual pages to describe the posix re-entrant functions. Although this is actually trivial to do, I have to decide on a consistent way of adding them - maybe `.Sh THREAD-SAFE FUNCTIONS' ? Should look into standards to see what they suggest/did.. May also need to document "This is not thread-safe" for some library functions (yet to be identified). [Need to ask aaron@ for his opinion.] * Find out where freebsd/netbsd use pread() and pwrite().. i think its in the database routines mostly. * Figure out what to do with the configuration system variables (_SC_*) that are defined by POSIX 1003.1c (at least update sysconf(3)) * Compare with PTL (http://www3.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/~k-abe/PTL/) [snarfed some sparc md stuff] * Verify that threads work with: - perl (in-tree) - objc (in-tree gcc) - ssl (in-tree) - gdb - ports - lang/python - databases/mysql - net/mrtd - devel/glib - www/squid * http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/locking-patterns.ps.gz http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TSS-pattern.ps.gz http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/DC-Locking.ps.gz $OpenBSD: TODO,v 1.10 2000/01/06 06:48:06 d Exp $