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["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Waldemar Kornewald <wkornew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Oliver Tappe wrote:
> > When you check the archives of this list, you'll find that we 
> > haven't really
> > made up our minds about which way to go: fix the current stack or 
> > replace it
> > with the one from FreeBSD. I am currently trying to find out just 
> > how buggy
> > our current stack is and try to get an estimate of how much work 
> > would be
> > necessary to bring it into a working state.
> I'm pretty sure that we'll port the FreeBSD netstack.

We might, yes, but there are many different ways of porting something. 
I would like best to merge it into our current stack.

> Yup, agreed. That would be the first task. I can already name two 
> things:
> * sysctl() is not supported by our netstack and the plan is to 
> replace 
> it with a nicer mechanism (BMessage, and from kernel: KMessage).

I think a simple ioctl() interface is the way to go for now.

> * PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER is a function call, thus you can't 
> statically
> initialize a mutex. ATM, our pthread support is not as nice as it 
> should be. I
> know that Axel has the fix on his TODO list, but he's probably busy 
> with other
> coding tasks, right now. Anyway, you can get around that even without 
> the fix.

Well, he could even fix it if he needs it, I don't have to do 
everything, really :-)

Bye,
   Axel.