From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Oct 31 16:52:35 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 5D9D214C24 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 16:52:32 -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 BAA23513 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 01:52:31 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id BAA68581 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 01:52:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E193C15099 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 16:51:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p08-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.137]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id JAA20773; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 09:51:49 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <381CE369.C28FB9A3@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 09:48:41 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams Cc: Julian Elischer , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Threads models and FreeBSD. References: <199910312340.QAA12893@mt.sri.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nate Williams wrote: > > > 3/ Inability of one thread to block aother thread unless they are > > intentionally synchronising. > > I think this can be dropped, since it's both confusing and almost > contradictory. There is no such way to 'block' a regular process, > although one can stop it in Unix, so the issue of blocking implies a > blocking on something, which is allowed. > > > 10/ your ideas here. Note, you an also suggest that I remove an idea. > > The ability for a process to have multiple threads active in the kernel > (system calls) without stopping the process the threads are busy in. This is a subset of the one you think can be dropped. :-) Maybe it should rather be reworded? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "People call him Neutron Star, 'cuz he's so dense lights bends around him." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message