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Date:      Sun, 4 Mar 2001 09:55:03 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Jordan DeLong <fracture@allusion.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD pthreads
Message-ID:  <20010304095502.N8663@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010304101847.A8709@cx420564-b.tucson1.az.home.com>; from fracture@allusion.net on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 10:18:47AM %2B0000
References:  <20010304101847.A8709@cx420564-b.tucson1.az.home.com>

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* Jordan DeLong <fracture@allusion.net> [010304 09:27] wrote:
> Hey; I've got a question about the pthread implementation on freebsd.  I was
> looking it over and noticed that the pthread library is green; which is
> disadvantagous on SMP machines.  I found a port of the linux pthreads, but it
> uses rfork() to create the new threads...
> 
> Anyway; I was curious if a clone() call is in the works for freebsd 5.0?  And
> if not, is there much interest in getting one at some point, or are there other
> factors that'd make implemention of one right now more difficult than it would
> seem?

What's the difference between clone() and rfork()?  Last I checked they
were pretty much the same.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]

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