From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 17 11: 5:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 407FE1528C for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:05:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA13212; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:26:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:26:51 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: Glen Driban , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel threads Message-ID: <20000117112651.S508@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <38833318.657CF494@wgate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 03:43:45PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jonathon McKitrick [000117 08:10] wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Glen Driban wrote: > > >Any support in any of the 3.x releases for kernel threads? I can only > >find reference to pthreads. I've searched the freeBSD.org site, looked > >at the FAQ's and looked at the 3.x release notes. If no support for > >kernel threads is it planned for the future and in what release might we > >expect to see it. > > There are no kernel threads at the moment, but FreeBSD still has fantastic > performance. Apparently they are now discussing what kind of architecture > they want to use to implement kernel threads in the future. It probably > will be a while away, however. Since 4.0 is due out soon, maybe they will > start on kernel threads in -current after this release, and they will > spend a while hammering out the details and bugs. /usr/ports/devel/linuxthreads/ -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message