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From: "Nuno Antunes" <nuno.antunes@gmail.com>
To: "Ruslan Ermilov" <ru@freebsd.org>
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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
Subject: Re: KSE, libpthread & libthr: almost newbie question
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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