From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 28 18:30:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from shell.unixbox.com (shell.unixbox.com [207.211.45.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A53837B400 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:30:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (fengyue@localhost) by shell.unixbox.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAT2WFv58442; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:32:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:32:15 -0800 (PST) From: FengYue X-Sender: fengyue@shell.unixbox.com To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: David Petrou , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: thread model questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, FengYue wrote: ->->No it wouldn't. The async nature of the call would prevent the ->->process from blocking therefore the threads wouldn't block either ->->blocking. ->-> -> ->Sorry for being unclear. I actually meant "Would the async system calls ->considered the case for 'preemptive at kernel level'". Never mind, I see what you meant:) Would you mind give me a scenario which is considered as preemptive at kernel level for fbsd threads? Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message