From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 4 10:26:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp4.port.ru (mx5.port.ru [194.67.23.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC82F37B718 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 10:26:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kabaev@mail.ru) Received: from adsl-141-154-120-128.bostma.adsl.bellatlantic.net ([141.154.120.128] helo=kan.dnsalias.net) by smtp4.port.ru with esmtp (Exim 3.14 #24) id 14ZdCr-0008Gd-00; Sun, 04 Mar 2001 21:26:10 +0300 Received: (from kan@localhost) by kan.dnsalias.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f24IOZf07705; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 13:24:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from kan) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.7p2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010304100102.O8663@fw.wintelcom.net> Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 13:24:34 -0500 (EST) From: "Alexander N. Kabaev" To: Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: FreeBSD pthreads Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Jordan DeLong Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Actually, clone() returns to your program with the stack fixed up > so that you don't crash immediately, FreeBSD has a way of doing > this, it's documented in the manpages and through disucssion on > the mailing lists. > > -- > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Yes, I know, but LinuxThreads provides nice rfork wrapper everyone can use, so usefullness of the native FreeBSD clone is still questionable. The original message suggested that rfork-based LinuxThreads implementation is somewhat inferior to the 'clone' based one and I was objecting to that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message