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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: kernel threads
To: dfk@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 11:44:46 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199510051604.MAA16912@wildcat.cs.dartmouth.edu> from "David Kotz" at Oct 5, 95 12:04:04 pm
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> 
> I understand that FreeBSD does not export a thread abstraction to the
> user, but does the kernel itself use threads internally?

You got that backwards.  FreeBSD supports a thread abstraction to the
user, but doesn't support kernel threads internally.

Look at libpthreads (pthreads package) for thread support.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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