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On Mon, 20 May 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:
> The Solaris LWP's are a bit harder.  They require kernel preemption and
> multithreading.
are you sure? last time I look at it, was that LWP is just another process
that at will share somebody's code and data segments. use union to make
use of the process table entries in otherwise regular process table. 

You are right that they are being used for multithreading in c and ada
implementation.