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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: libkse and SMP (was Re: USB bulk read & pthreads)
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On Fri, 23 May 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 
> This is handy to know; so basically, my expectation from
> reading the code around PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM was correct:
> a single CPU system with PTHREAD_SCOPE_PROCESS (the default)
> can still get itself blocked in the kernel by a single
> blocking call (as in the USB bulk read device issue).


No you are completely wrong..

Each PTHREAD_SCOPE_PROCESS gets its OWN KSE to run on.
that thread may block but other threads may run unimpeded.