From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Oct 31 19:43:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38282151EC for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 19:42:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA02206 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 04:42:56 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id EAA70107 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 04:42:56 +0100 (MET) Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF34014A16 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 19:42:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: (from eischen@localhost) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id WAA19654; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 22:41:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 22:41:26 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen Message-Id: <199911010341.WAA19654@pcnet1.pcnet.com> To: julian@whistle.com, nate@mt.sri.com Subject: Re: Threads goals version II Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 10/ Quick access to curthread and thread specific data. We shouldn't > > have to enter the kernel to get this. This should also be true > > for threads spread across multiple [lightweight] processes. > > The last sentence is redundant, since threads are by definition > lightweight processes. :) Well, that wasn't the intent. My use of lightweight process was to mean a process. I believe that threads and lightweight processes mean different things in Solaris. Reword it any way you see fit. Dan Eischen eischen@vigrid.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message