[Ukfreebsd] Quagga and FreeBSD multi-threaded support

O'Connor, Kevin KevinO'Connor at merseyfire.gov.uk
Wed Nov 14 14:57:21 GMT 2012


This just dropped into my inbox from the Quagga mailing list

>Quagga was planned to use multi-threaded mechanism when it runs with a
>kernel that supports multi-threads. But at the moment, the thread
library
>which comes with @sc{gnu}/Linux or FreeBSD has some problems with
running
>reliable services such as routing software, so we don't use threads at
all.
>Instead we use the @command{select(2)} system call for multiplexing the
>events. 

I was under the impression that multi-thread support had no issues on
recent releases of FreeBSD. 
Am I mistaken or has Quagga just not caught up with us.

Kevin


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