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From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To: Nuno Antunes <nuno.antunes@gmail.com>
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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 Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 02:43:21PM +0100, Nuno Antunes wrote:
> On 10/27/06, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >KSE =3D=3D 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.
> >
>=20
> IIRC, I can even remember libpthread being originaly named libkse.
>=20
It's still named libkse on sparc64 and sun4v.


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

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