From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Jun 5 10:20:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-smp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA16864 for smp-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:20:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA16854; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:20:12 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199606051720.KAA16854@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Unix/NT synchronization model (was: SMP progress?) To: michaelv@HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:20:12 -0700 (PDT) Cc: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, sef@kithrup.com, smp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606050511.WAA25213@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> from "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" at Jun 4, 96 10:11:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > Which is why I want to see how it's done in a modern Unix. Maybe > there's a "better" way. Or, at least a more "standard" way. It would > be kinda dumb to put together a bunch of sync stuff that looks like > NT, nice as it might be, when everything else written for an MP or > threaded Unix works totally different. I don't want to be locked into > an NT paradigm. SunExpert magazine did a four article series on threads beginning with the feb '96 issue. the last article in the series (may '96) compares pthreads with solaris threads. its all api level stuff jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/