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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:58:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Dott. Davide Tome'" <davide@tome.it>
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Subject: Re: Kaffe & FreeBSD 2.1.5
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On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Dott. Davide Tome' wrote:

> Hi,
> It seems that Thread.yield () method
> doesn't work in the Kaffe VM on FreeBSD
> 2.1.5.
> Does FreeBSD support Multi-Thread architectue?

Not in the OS itself.  We do have support for POSIX threads, but you have
to build a thead-aware libc (libc_r) to use them.

Did you try the Kaffe port?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
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