From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 1 17:26:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA22477 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 17:26:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.fasts.com (qmailr@server.fasts.com [199.125.215.66]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA22468 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 17:26:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 8732 invoked from network); 2 Feb 1997 03:25:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cabby.fasts.com) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 2 Feb 1997 03:25:50 -0000 Message-ID: <32F3ED48.5F28@fasts.com> Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 03:26:32 +0200 From: Victor Rotanov X-Sender: Victor Rotanov X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b1 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Bawor CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two short questions X-Priority: Normal References: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----------3C4C42042EA1" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ------------3C4C42042EA1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii hi Adam Adam Bawor wrote: > > Hello! > > I'm a CS student. Last week I purchased FreeBSD and I have two questions: > > 1. Does FreeBSD support symmetric multiprocessing? I have > a dual PentiumPro machine with FreeBSD installed on it, but > it seems that one processor is not used at all. FreeBSD 3.0 will support SMP. > > 2. I am interested in concurrent programming and I wonder if > there is a chance to get 'pthreads' library? Is there any > vendor, or a web site where I could get the library that would > work under FreeBSD? FreeBSD 2.2 supports threads AFAIK, do not know about pthreads library. There was some kind of pthreads library with netbsd (maybe openbsd too), maybe it will work. > > I would be very grateful if someone could answer these questions. > > Thank you. > > Adam Bawor bye ------------3C4C42042EA1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

hi Adam

Adam Bawor wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I'm a CS student. Last week I purchased FreeBSD and I have two questions:
>
> 1. Does FreeBSD support symmetric multiprocessing? I have
> a dual PentiumPro machine with FreeBSD installed on it, but
> it seems that one processor is not used at all.

FreeBSD 3.0 will support SMP.
>
> 2. I am interested in concurrent programming and I wonder if
> there is a chance to get 'pthreads' library? Is there any
> vendor, or a web site where I could get the library that would
> work under FreeBSD?

FreeBSD 2.2 supports threads AFAIK, do not know about pthreads library.

There was some kind of pthreads library with netbsd (maybe openbsd too),

maybe it will work.
>
> I would be very grateful if someone could answer these questions.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Adam Bawor
bye

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