From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 24 12:07:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA00121 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 12:07:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA00111 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 12:07:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.7/8.8.8) id PAA02411; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 15:07:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199711242007.PAA02411@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Lightweight processes? In-Reply-To: <19971124170520.AAA2513@gravitar.datacruz.com> from Craig Norborg at "Nov 24, 97 12:04:40 pm" To: doc@datacruz.com (Craig Norborg) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 15:07:43 -0500 (EST) Cc: support@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Craig Norborg said: > Haven't heard of this term before, but there is a piece of software > that is avoiding freebsd because they say it doesn't support them. > Thought you might want to know... > > > > >Our SGI port starts next week. BSDI may happen around Xmas time. FreeBSD > >is not an option at this point since its kernel has no lightweight process > >mechanism. > > The FreeBSD-current kernel most definitely has a lightweight process mechanism right now. It isn't supported in userland yet, but that is changing quickly. By the Xmas time, FreeBSD-current will have both AIO/LIO and lightweight processes. -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com