Unrelated Note

On an unrelated note, FreeBSD handles pthread_mutex's shared status properly. Mac OS X does not.

Debugging code that relies on this on Mac OSX may cause hair loss.

(This was from my first CSE410 project, thought I'd post it here while I was posting things).

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Not Just OS X

The reason for my previous post, was to ensure that the issues that I encountered building the Hg-current build of PCS were not a result of running on Darwin/OSX instead of FreeBSD. This worry has been alleviated - the same issues occur on FreeBSD.

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Some Time to Work...

Hopefully I'll have some time to get some things done this weekend, now that I don't have to worry about getting the apartment cleaned up, things sold, and paying for school.

Started getting things set up on my Mac for the project. So far I've got FreeBSD installed in a VMWare machine, Python 2.5 installed (because the MacPort of 2.6 doesn't want to, for whatever reason). Downloaded PCS and started getting it set up, although I've run into a snag getting it to find Pyrex properly. Read more...

GSoC 2009 Acceptance

Google just posted the list of approved student applications, and it looks like mine made it in :-). Hopefully I'll be able to find a blogging client this summer that [1] makes readable HTML and [2] also has decent support for inline code.

Thanks to FreeBSD for being my mentoring organization, and George Neville-Neil for being my mentor. Advance thanks to Prof. Titus Brown for all the hassle I'm about to give him this summer. [/sarcasm?]

More news as it happens.

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