From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 4 10: 3: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC96D37B718 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 10:03:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: (from eischen@localhost) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id NAA11298; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 13:02:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 13:02:25 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen To: Jordan DeLong Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD pthreads In-Reply-To: <20010304101847.A8709@cx420564-b.tucson1.az.home.com> 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 Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Jordan DeLong wrote: > Hey; I've got a question about the pthread implementation on freebsd. I was > looking it over and noticed that the pthread library is green; which is > disadvantagous on SMP machines. I found a port of the linux pthreads, but it > uses rfork() to create the new threads... > > Anyway; I was curious if a clone() call is in the works for freebsd 5.0? And see rfork_thread(3). A pthreads implementation using it is in the works for 5.0. > if not, is there much interest in getting one at some point, or are there other > factors that'd make implemention of one right now more difficult than it would > seem? -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message