Mono XSP & mod_mono support on FreeBSD

[Dominic Marks]

Hackers,

Currently XSP (Mono's ASP.NET implementation) does not run on FreeBSD.

There is a brief post here about the reasons why from David Xu:


http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-threads/2005-March/002944.html

Since that message is over 2 years old I hoped that it might no longer
be the case, but when I attempted to run the application it does not
work. This is the case if you use libc_r, libthr or libpthread. I was
using 6.2-STABLE, if it matters.

I am interested if anyone knows if this is likely to ever work. I am
more than happy to test patches for anyone who wanted to have a go at
it. It seems that there was a previous effort to get it ported but that
seems to have run to this issue and stopped.

I must be in a very small minority who actually wants capability?

Thanks,
Dominic

[Daniel Eischen]

Post by Dominic Marks
Hackers,
Currently XSP (Mono's ASP.NET implementation) does not run on FreeBSD.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-threads/2005-March/002944.html
Since that message is over 2 years old I hoped that it might no longer be the
case, but when I attempted to run the application it does not work. This is
the case if you use libc_r, libthr or libpthread. I was using 6.2-STABLE, if
it matters.
I am interested if anyone knows if this is likely to ever work. I am more
than happy to test patches for anyone who wanted to have a go at it. It seems
that there was a previous effort to get it ported but that seems to have run
to this issue and stopped.

Process shared mutexes and condition variables will never be supported
in 6.x. They may occur at some point in 7.x. mono should be fixed so
that it respects _POSIX_THREAD_PROCESS_SHARED.

[Phillip N.]

Post by Daniel Eischen

Post by Dominic Marks
Hackers,
Currently XSP (Mono's ASP.NET implementation) does not run on FreeBSD.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-threads/2005-March/002944.html
Since that message is over 2 years old I hoped that it might no longer be the
case, but when I attempted to run the application it does not work. This is
the case if you use libc_r, libthr or libpthread. I was using 6.2-STABLE, if
it matters.
I am interested if anyone knows if this is likely to ever work. I am more
than happy to test patches for anyone who wanted to have a go at it. It seems
that there was a previous effort to get it ported but that seems to have run
to this issue and stopped.

Process shared mutexes and condition variables will never be supported
in 6.x. They may occur at some point in 7.x. mono should be fixed so
that it respects _POSIX_THREAD_PROCESS_SHARED.

Hi.. ive been running a pair of WebServices over
mod_mono-1.2.4/mono-1.2.3.1 withouth much problems.

But problems with threads/semps are known..

It would be very interesting if you could file a detail bug in mono's
tracker about _POSIX_THREAD_PROCESS_SHARED to see the reaction over
there.
Maybe that way, someone do something, and make us all happy... :)


cheers!