From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 4 9:55:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 262A637B719 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 09:55:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f24Ht3x24682; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 09:55:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 09:55:03 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jordan DeLong Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD pthreads Message-ID: <20010304095502.N8663@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20010304101847.A8709@cx420564-b.tucson1.az.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010304101847.A8709@cx420564-b.tucson1.az.home.com>; from fracture@allusion.net on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 10:18:47AM +0000 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jordan DeLong [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] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message