From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 12 12:05:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA06787 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 12:05:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy.siemens.at (proxy.siemens.at [192.138.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA06780 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 12:05:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sol1.gud.siemens.co.at (sol-f.gud.siemens-austria) by proxy.siemens.at with SMTP id AA00770 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for ); Mon, 12 Aug 1996 21:04:53 +0200 Received: from ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at by sol1.gud.siemens.co.at with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #7 for ) id m0uq2IH-000247C; Mon, 12 Aug 96 21:04 MET DST Received: by ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at (1.37.109.16/1.37) id AA164676506; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 21:01:46 +0200 From: "Hr.Ladavac" Message-Id: <199608121901.AA164676506@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. NT Stability To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 21:01:46 +0200 (MESZ) Cc: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, terry@lambert.org, igor@jabber.paco.odessa.ua, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199608121747.KAA25675@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Aug 12, 96 10:47:54 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk E-mail message from Terry Lambert contained: > > Other than some experimental code that I did which never made it > into the UnixWare 2.x release, I don't know of *any* user/kernel > hybrid threads implementations, sorry. Isn't SunOS 5 threads over LWP's such a hybrid (at least according to a rather ancient documentation which I had in hand.) Linux VIPER was designed as such as well (but I will not talk about long evaporated vaporware any more--sorry to have mentioned it at all, bitter taste lingers pretty long.) > > This is probably something I will hack on (since I feel strongly about > it), but like many things, I need to wait for other code integration > before I can do anything about it. I wish I had the time ... /Marino