From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 23 20:16:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from x86unx3.comp.nus.edu.sg (x86unx3.comp.nus.edu.sg [137.132.90.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2478614D53 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:16:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from harihara@comp.nus.edu.sg) Received: from decunx.comp.nus.edu.sg (root@decunx-m.comp.nus.edu.sg [137.132.90.9]) by x86unx3.comp.nus.edu.sg (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA19113; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 11:13:45 +0800 (SGT) Received: from periyar (harihara@shiva1-32.comp.nus.edu.sg [137.132.93.222]) by decunx.comp.nus.edu.sg (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA24338; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 11:13:17 +0800 (SST) Message-ID: <008e01beedde$bcefb020$de5d8489@periyar> Reply-To: "Hariharan Mahadevan" From: "Hariharan Mahadevan" To: "Greg Lehey" Cc: References: <19990824085838.M83273@freebie.lemis.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Kernel Question Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 11:13:44 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To: Hariharan Mahadevan Cc: 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