From owner-freebsd-arch Wed May 31 21:10:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from sharmas.dhs.org (c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.0.69.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8FC237BA70 for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 21:10:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org) Received: (from adsharma@localhost) by sharmas.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA14386; Wed, 31 May 2000 21:10:38 -0700 Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 21:10:38 -0700 From: Arun Sharma To: "Andrew M. Miklic" Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LWP Support Message-ID: <20000531211038.A14366@sharmas.dhs.org> References: <3935CD62.8FA8825E@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <3935CD62.8FA8825E@ibm.net>; from Andrew M. Miklic on Wed, May 31, 2000 at 08:41:38PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 08:41:38PM -0600, Andrew M. Miklic wrote: > All, > > I am currently working on OSF1 support for FreeBSD/Alpha, and I > found that FreeBSD apparently has no support for any type of LWP > mechanism--not only would LWPs make my OSF1 emulation work much easier, > but it would also benefit anyone trying to create effective and > efficient multi-threaded programs... > > Does anyone know if there is any work being done on this front, or > would anyone be interested in helping me through some of the FreeBSD > internals to start my own? rfork(2) is the thing that comes closest to an LWP. FreeBSD has kernel support for threads, but no native userland support. The linuxthreads port is the only way of using kernel threads. -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message