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From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
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Subject: Re: cc -pthread and -kthread switches
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Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote:
> You and I have corresponded privately, and I have offered my
> assistance in creating a FreeBSD kernel threads implementation.
> As I have indicated to you, as well as to Julian, I don't
> think I'm the right person to lead this effort, since there
> are technical issues involved with "many-to-many" kernel threads
> that I don't fully understand how to resolve, yet.  But, I'd
> certainly be willing to be an active contributor to this
> project.

Let me add my support for this also.  I'm working on changing
the select() mechanism that libc_r uses now, to poll.  After
that, I want to investigate kernel threads.

Dan Eischen
eischen@vigrid.com


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