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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 2000 01:35:33 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Mohit Aron <aron@cs.rice.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: does pthread package support kernel threads ?
Message-ID:  <20001129013532.I8051@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <200011290932.DAA13775@cs.rice.edu>; from aron@cs.rice.edu on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 03:32:40AM -0600
References:  <200011290932.DAA13775@cs.rice.edu>

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* Mohit Aron <aron@cs.rice.edu> [001129 01:32] wrote:
> Hi,
> 	FreeBSD provides the pthread package (available through the
> use of the option -pthread to gcc). Does this package use user-level
> threads or does it use kernel threads ? I believe the kernel supports
> multiple threads in the same address space using the rfork() system 
> call.

-pthreads is userland threads
the linux-threads port supports rfork based threads.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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