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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 11:27:59 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: libkse -> libpthread
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Jeff Roberson wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > Since libkse seems to be generally useful, anyone mind if I
> > go back to installing it as libpthread?
> 
> There is some question over whether kse or thr will be the default
> threading implementation for 5.1.  I think this should be discussed before
> we decide on what lib uses libpthread.

Isn't libthr really just libkse with N = M?

These should behave exactly the same, right?  It should even be
possible to drop the UTS out of the picture for everything but
signal handling, I think (i.e. it would never get upcalled) in
the 1:1 case, if this were done?

-- Terry