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Date:      Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:34:09 +0000
From:      Jordan DeLong <fracture@allusion.net>
To:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD pthreads
Message-ID:  <20010304113409.A12423@cx420564-b.tucson1.az.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010304125910.10469A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>; from eischen@vigrid.com on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 01:02:25PM -0500
References:  <20010304101847.A8709@cx420564-b.tucson1.az.home.com> <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010304125910.10469A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 01:02:25PM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Jordan DeLong wrote:
> > Hey; I've got a question about the pthread implementation on freebsd.  I was
> > looking it over and noticed that the pthread library is green; which is
> > disadvantagous on SMP machines.  I found a port of the linux pthreads, but it
> > uses rfork() to create the new threads...
> > 
> > Anyway; I was curious if a clone() call is in the works for freebsd 5.0?  And
> 
> see rfork_thread(3).  A pthreads implementation using it is in the works
> for 5.0.
> 

I just took a look at this.  Looks extra cool, hehe.

thanks,
-Jordan

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