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From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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On Mon, 20 May 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Which LWP?  The SunOS 4.x LWP, which is a user space library that
> uses aioread/aiowrite/aiowait/aiocancel, or the kernel threads in
> Solaris, also called LWP's?
> 
> "There are no SunOS 4.x LWP's, there are only Solaris LWP's!"
> "We have *always* been at war with the East!"
> "There is no Dana, only Zuul!"
> 
> The SunOS LWP's are pretty easy.
> 
> The Solaris LWP's are a bit harder.  They require kernel preemption and
> multithreading.

I suspect it is the latter, as /usr/openwin/bin/ttsession is linked to 
libthread.so.1.  BTW, since most Openwindows Deskset apps use ToolTalk to 
varying degrees (as does CDE), they will have problems in its absence.

---Jake