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." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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