From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Nov 1 4:29: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45EEA15105 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 04:28:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA12333 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:28:32 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id NAA72243 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:28:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF2BB150A8 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 04:27:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: (from eischen@localhost) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id HAA11398; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 07:26:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 07:26:39 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen Message-Id: <199911011226.HAA11398@pcnet1.pcnet.com> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, michael.schuster@germany.sun.com Subject: Re: Threads goals version III Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > - a mechanism for mapping _one_or_more_ userland threads (within the > same process) to a kernel thread. Solaris (yes, I'm biased :-) uses the > term lightweight process here (so, to contradict Dan, if I remember > correctly, this is not the same thing). Actually, I'm the one who said a Solaris [pthread] thread is not equivalent to a lightweight process. In Solaris, there are: o Application [user] threads which run over one or more lightweight processes. o Lightweight processes which run on kernel threads o Kernel threads as the basic scheduling entity - these do not have to be mapped to an LWP Dan Eischen eischen@vigrid.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message