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Date:      Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:43:21 +0100
From:      "Nuno Antunes" <nuno.antunes@gmail.com>
To:        "Ruslan Ermilov" <ru@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
Subject:   Re: KSE, libpthread & libthr: almost newbie question
Message-ID:  <262949390610270643i3ce7e9f6k35862587ac546d52@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061027094922.GC6613@rambler-co.ru>
References:  <917908193.20061027102647@serebryakov.spb.ru> <ehshjl$dsp$1@sea.gmane.org> <20061027094922.GC6613@rambler-co.ru>

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On 10/27/06, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> wrote:
> KSE == N:M threading
>
> A 1:1 threading (libthr) is much simpler than N:M threading (libpthread),
> and thus doesn't require KSE support in the kernel; see kse(2) manpage
> for details.  Without the KSE option in the kernel, all kse(2) syscalls
> will return EOPNOTSUPP, and a lot of code becomes redundant.
>

IIRC, I can even remember libpthread being originaly named libkse.

Regards,
Nuno



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