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From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Co-opting signals
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On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Girish Hilage wrote:

> Hi,
>
>    I heard that, user level pthreads co-opt some signals to get their
> job done.
>    Can anybody please let me know which are these signals?

Not true since 4.x since only libc_r did this.  Since FreeBSD 5.x,
the default thread libraries (libpthread/libkse, and libthr) do
not use signals for their implementation.  Under 5.x and subsequent,
just compile and link your program normally (use -pthread or
-lpthread when linking) and you will get the default thread
library (not libc_r, which has been deprecated in 7.x/current).

-- 
DE