From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Nov 1 13:20:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CBF314CC1 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:20:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA08187 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 22:20:05 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id WAA75569 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 22:20:05 +0100 (MET) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A43314DEA; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:19:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whiste.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA62161; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:19:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:19:19 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: Nate Williams , Peter Dufault , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Threads models and FreeBSD. In-Reply-To: <199911011914.MAA00659@caspian.plutotech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG there is no guarantee that thread specific storage is 'private' only that when you access it from each thread you end up pointing to a different place (physically). the use of an index register or some other trick satisfies this requirement. On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >> > Thread share everything that a normal process, including a > >> > thread-specific stack which is used to keep each thread's context > >> > seperate from one another. > >> > >> I haven't caught up with you guys yet. This is what > >> I asked about POSIX threading before: can stack be private per > >> thread? > > > >I don't believe so, although each thread does have it's own stack, it's > >not private. Sean would know more though.... > > What about thread local storage? > > -- > Justin > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message