OpenBSD 3.2 Available

fredrikv writes "Right on time, the files defining OpenBSD 3.2 have moved away from "snapshots" to the 3.2 directory of the OpenBSD mirrors. It is well known as the world's most secure operating system and now sports chroot'd Apache, fewer suid binaries, cool pictures for xdm-logins, a brilliant "antispoof" packet filtering rule and as usual includes lots of small updates and fixes. The files are there. What are you waiting for?"

Comments

Threading issues resolved?

[Jack Wagner]

Does anyone know if they have the threading issues resolved with the kernel scheduler yet?

Tha last time I worked on any BSD code they were still having some low level race conditions occuring where the kernel scheduler would actually hit two proccesses at the same time which made it look like the program had some mutex corruption when it was actually a problem with the kernel and the semaphores they use to map memory for threads.

Granted if you're only using it as a workstation you'll never see it happen as it only happened under load but I found my clients were forced to move to a commercial Unix (I still recommend Sun) as they were the only products on the market able to handle enterprise type server loads with non-trivial applications. (okay, wer're talking n-tier Olog(n) cluster nodes which is very demanding but still...)

Warmest regards,
--Jack