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Date:      Wed, 5 Jun 1996 16:38:40 +0900 (JST)
From:      Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: coda questions
Message-ID:  <Pine.SV4.3.93.960605163347.2094B-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <199606031815.LAA25273@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > One of the middle-layer VM enhancements that I plan to add for 2.2 is
> > true-shared address spaces.  Will this help?
> 
> In this model, what will be the difference between a kernel thread and
> multiple processes with true-shared address spaces?
> 
> I am specifically referring to an SVR4/Solaris "LWP" kernel thread.
> 

I'm curious to know the difference too.  I read in the 4.4 BSD book that
4.4 BSD kernel threads have different process IDs.  Is this still
consistent with the direction of FreeBSD?

Is there work being done to make the libs thread safe so that this stuff
can be "turned on".

-mh





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