From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 6:54:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BCD737B4CF for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 06:54:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA08443; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:54:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:54:10 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Suresh Kumar Gupta Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Multithreading Re: your mail Message-ID: <20001031095410.A8409@blackhelicopters.org> References: <000701c0434a$83b51ee0$9159d6d2@e6f6u7> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <000701c0434a$83b51ee0$9159d6d2@e6f6u7>; from sureshkumg@satyam.net.in on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:24:29PM +0530 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Please give your mail a subject next time, it makes it easier for us to answer. :) On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:24:29PM +0530, Suresh Kumar Gupta wrote: > Hello, > I wnated to know a basic question is FreeBSD a MULTITHREADED OPERATING SYSTEM... we are having a big argument on this and we would really like for someone to clarify our doubt There's userland threads available in 4.x, and 5.x has a threaded kernel. In 3.x, you had to install the linuxthreads package... that's probably the source of the debate. ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message