From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 11 17:09:27 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA15595 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 17:09:27 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA15584 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 17:09:12 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA08483; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 18:04:15 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199511120104.SAA08483@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Processes in kernel. To: slocum!ankur@research.att.com Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 18:04:14 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511112236.OAA04219@mail.barrnet.net> from "ankur@research.att.com" at Nov 11, 95 05:36:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 604 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I need to know whether there are processes in the FreeBSD kernel > like they are in the user space. Please send in your reply to > ankur@research.att.com Currently, thee are user space processes started by the kernel in the same way that init is started. Kernel multithreading is an issue that requires resolving most of the issues for better than the low grain SMP that is currently available; much of the issues are being addressed in ongoing develeopement. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.