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Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 17:01:08 +0100
From: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>
Organization: Strathclyde Uni
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Subject: Kernel Threads. What is the status?
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Hi,
I was wondering what the status of Kernel Threads is. Is it
a) On the wish list, but not started yet.
b) Under casual development
c) Under serious development

I want to make maximum use of my dual PII box for image processing.
I've used fork() and shared memory to share the processing over the 2
CPUs.
I would like to use POSIX Pthreads.

Linux has kernel threads and their Pthreads run over multiple CPUs.

What is the state of FreeBSD?

Thanks
Roger Hardiman,
Strathclyde Uni Telepresence Group

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