From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 17 16:12:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFD6514EF1 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:12:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@nwlink.com) Received: from nwlink.com (ip165.r3.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.172.165]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA08994 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:12:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3883AEFC.F2356F6C@nwlink.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:08:28 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel threads References: <38833318.657CF494@wgate.com> <20000117112651.S508@fw.wintelcom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Jonathon McKitrick [000117 08:10] wrote: > > > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Glen Driban wrote: > > > > >Any support in any of the 3.x releases for kernel threads? I can only > > >find reference to pthreads. I've searched the freeBSD.org site, looked > > >at the FAQ's and looked at the 3.x release notes. If no support for > > >kernel threads is it planned for the future and in what release might we > > >expect to see it. > > > > There are no kernel threads at the moment, but FreeBSD still has fantastic > > performance. Apparently they are now discussing what kind of architecture > > they want to use to implement kernel threads in the future. It probably > > will be a while away, however. Since 4.0 is due out soon, maybe they will > > start on kernel threads in -current after this release, and they will > > spend a while hammering out the details and bugs. > > /usr/ports/devel/linuxthreads/ Does one need specially compiled software to use these threads? -- Best Regards, Joseph You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Colette. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message