Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 11:13:44 +0800 From: "Hariharan Mahadevan" <harihara@comp.nus.edu.sg> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Kernel Question Message-ID: <008e01beedde$bcefb020$de5d8489@periyar> References: <Pine.OSF.3.96.990823144510.30251B-100000@decunx.comp.nus.edu.sg> <19990824085838.M83273@freebie.lemis.com>
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Thanks. when you say user-space threads, the threads are actually duplicate processes, is that right? Not exactly the lightweight threads that Solaris/Windows implements with just its own stack space. Hari ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Hariharan Mahadevan <harihara@comp.nus.edu.sg> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 7:28 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Kernel Question > On Monday, 23 August 1999 at 14:46:43 +0800, Hariharan Mahadevan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Could anyone tell me how threads are implemented in FreeBSD? Are they true > > kernel threads or quasi-processes as in Linux? > > Currently we only have user space threads. We're talking about kernel > threads as well (the question isn't whether we should do it, it's > how). > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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