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Subject: Re: Comments on the  KSE option
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On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Paul Allen wrote:

>
> Anyways it remains dubious in my mind that the kernel should allow
> a user to create many processes but penalize creating threads.

Are you even _reading_ what people are saying?  No one has
said that you can't have system scope threads.  Stop with
the FUD.  The question we seem to be arguing about is whether
to also allow (and perhaps make default) process scope threads
(these are fair threads).

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DE