From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Aug 2 23:26:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7949937B407 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 23:26:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA49582; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 01:37:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 01:37:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Chris Costello Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: threads comment In-Reply-To: <20010803001257.H6870@holly.calldei.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Chris Costello wrote: > That would be extremely confusing. A task would be a thing to > go to; that sounds more like an instruction, or maybe a thread. > I think your current diff does it best: Everybody knows that a > single process has one or more threads of execution, rather than > a task having one or more processes of execution. Don't you > agree? Well that's what I'm doing.... :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message