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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 2000 01:39:18 -0800 (PST)
From:      FengYue <fengyue@bluerose.windmoon.nu>
To:        Mohit Aron <aron@cs.rice.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: does pthread package support kernel threads ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011290137390.6501-100000@shell.unixbox.com>
In-Reply-To: <200011290932.DAA13775@cs.rice.edu>

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On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Mohit Aron 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.
->
->
->- Mohit

-pthread is pure userland thread in fbsd.  



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