From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Nov 1 4:29:20 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 9D4F2150B3 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 04:29:15 -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 NAA12360 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:29:14 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id NAA72304 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:29:14 +0100 (MET) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ADEF15241 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 04:28:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p26-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.155]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id VAA29915; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 21:28:06 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <381D8544.420B131B@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 21:19:16 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams Cc: Julian Elischer , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Threads goals version II References: <199911010225.TAA14010@mt.sri.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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