Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 21:19:16 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Threads goals version II Message-ID: <381D8544.420B131B@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910311817030.8816-100000@home.elischer.org> <199911010225.TAA14010@mt.sri.com>
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Nate Williams wrote: > > > 10/ Quick access to curthread and thread specific data. We shouldn't > > have to enter the kernel to get this. This should also be true > > for threads spread across multiple [lightweight] processes. > > The last sentence is redundant, since threads are by definition > lightweight processes. :) Lightweight processes are threads by one definition. I have been assuming the person who originally mentioned this (Daniel Eischen) had another definition of lwp in mind. I'll now stop assuming and call for clear definition of what a lightweight process is, or, failing that, removal of the above. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "People call him Neutron Star, 'cuz he's so dense lights bends around him." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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