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I can answer the question myself now:
	- manpages of interest are kse(2) and ucontext(3)
	- FreeBSD threading relies on external threading libraries,
	  such as libthr, libpthread.
	- hence, it's difficult to impossible to write an assembly language program
	  that creates threads using direct system calls.

So, I guess, I have to go with one of the threading libraries...

On Saturday 14 October 2006 15:40, Ekkehard Morgenstern wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Does anyone know how to use the threading system calls that are accessible
> via int 80h?
>
> I would like to support multithreading in an assembly language program
> without linking to any of the threading libraries.
>
> Is that possible?
>
> Best wishes,
> Ekkehard.
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