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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: coda questions
To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson)
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 11:15:34 -0700 (MST)
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> > > what degree of threading does it have? 
> > > thread per remote computer
> > > enough threads to support demand
> > > thread per exported object
> > 
> > > and again, are tehse user-level threads (seems so). 
> > > Reason for asking: depending on how much threading, rfork() may do the job.
> > 
> One of the middle-layer VM enhancements that I plan to add for 2.2 is
> true-shared address spaces.  Will this help?

In this model, what will be the difference between a kernel thread and
multiple processes with true-shared address spaces?

I am specifically referring to an SVR4/Solaris "LWP" kernel thread.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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