From: Godmar Back (gback@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 08 1999 - 01:22:44 EST
>
> > Along those lines, I should probably pull the DNS functions into the
> > jsyscall interface.
>
> Sounds reasonable.
>
I've done that already.
> > The alternative is to spawn a new process (or steal a DNS impl in
> > Java).
>
> Methinks a DNS impl in Java would have trouble when running within an
> applet. We'd probably need a native implementation of DNS. Maybe we
> just shouldn't care about that, and get Kaffe working with native
> threading systems.
>
Why would it have trouble in an applet? I don't see any reason.
Native threading systems are not an alternative, if you think about it.
I'm right now playing some more with linux-threads, and I'll have to fix
oskit-pthreads to get up-to-date with the latest changes.
There's just isn't a threading standard or implementation that works well
for Java. I mean, think about it: Microsoft put hooks to their scheduler
in their JVM. It's no different for pthreads. In my opinion, the whole
standardization process was a joke cause it went right by what the actual
needs of run-time developers are.
- Godmar
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