From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 17 22:57:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA28046 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 22:57:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.local.sunyit.edu (A-T34.rh.sunyit.edu [150.156.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA28038 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 22:57:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (perlsta@localhost) by server.local.sunyit.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA09262; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 01:03:07 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: server.local.sunyit.edu: perlsta owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 01:03:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: perlsta@server.local.sunyit.edu To: Charles Ebert cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The low priority items In-Reply-To: <33F78D7E.2610@theshop.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm just about totalyly sure that freebsd supports two kinds of threads, native and "pthreads" (which i think are posix threads) i could be wrong. ._________________________________________ __ _ |Alfred Perlstein - Programming & SysAdmin for hire... |perlsta@sunyit.edu |http://www.cs.sunyit.edu/~perlsta : ---"Have you seen my FreeBSD tatoo?" ' ---"who was that masked admin?" On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Charles Ebert wrote: > I'm a little slow. Did I read correctly that Threaded processes are > not supported? And the next line down from that mentioned something > of the same, however, can I assume it is to deal with multiprocessor > CPU boards as well? > > I can understand the rush to invent new drives and support three > channel scsi cards and all that. > > I was always told of UNIX's unique ability to run multiple processor > systems. I never imagined that this system would have a problem with > threading. I was hoping that the multiple processor issue would > have a higher priority than it does. > > I'm a commercial windows programmer. I also work on OS2. > Seems like this environment is similar to OS2 in the aspect that > OS2 for the most part relys on one processor. Yet OS2 has support > for threading 5,000 some odd tasks and do it with 255 seperate > sessions. > > >From what I've read this Free BSD seems to support multiple sessions. > Yet I also read something about DLL's being supported, but I guess > you can't thread anything. > > As the system piles up, wouldn't it be more and more difficult to > achieve these goals? I'm very tempted to help but the only working > PC I have right now is this toshiba portable. > > Perhaps I will get into this next year as I plan on building another > machine. You have caught my eye with all this. > > I just love messes. Love resolving them, working on them. > You can only play so many card games you know. > > -- > Charlie >