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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: A quick vote on pthreads PLZ
To: chuckr@eng.umd.edu (Chuck Robey)
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 21:43:32 -0700 (PDT)
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> 
> On Fri, 20 Oct 1995, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> > 
> > A/port/package
> > or
> > B/new base part of the system?
> > 
> > there will be some changes to libc to make it thread-safe too.
> > 
> > I vote for B
> > 
> 
> B also.  You mean kernel threads?
no, not yet, (but it's on the way)
this would be the pthreads user-level library, but it will EVENTUALLY
grow kernel thread support when something happens to the kernel
(The something might intitially be rfork() and may change later)

julian