From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Nov 3 2:13:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A786514F51 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 02:13:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA06846 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 11:13:16 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id LAA85744 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 11:13:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 658EE14F51; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 02:13:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA41359; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 10:13:29 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 10:13:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Kris Kennaway Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thread references In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Below are a bunch of papers I was able to dig up last night which > reference the threading models of other OSes, as well as some general > papers. The Solaris implementation papers from Usenix are especially > interesting - I strongly suggest everyone reads at least those, since the > Solaris implementation is probably the "strongest" existing model. > > Something I'm unclear on though is whether that information is protected > by patents or whether by publishing in the usenix proceedings it becomes > an open source, and so whether we're allowed to refer to it in our own > design. If the patent was applied for before the disclosure, then I think they could be protected (I have no idea whether any of these technologies is encumbered by patents). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message