From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 19 08:33:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA16879 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:33:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA16860; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:33:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA10919; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 09:32:30 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA04879; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 09:32:29 -0700 Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 09:32:29 -0700 Message-Id: <199811191632.JAA04879@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Stephane Legrand Cc: Michael Robinson , nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: green threads vs. native threads ... In-Reply-To: <199811191346.OAA00545@sequoia.mondomaineamoi.megalo> References: <199811190910.RAA01871@public.bta.net.cn> <199811191346.OAA00545@sequoia.mondomaineamoi.megalo> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I think that someone is working on POSIX thread kernel on FreeBSD (see > the following message posted on comp.arch.embedded, comp.realtime and > comp.programming.literate). >From what I read and what I downloaded, it appears that this is a replacement kernel that does threads, but what FreeBSD needs is threads added to it's current kernel, not a replacement kernel that removes all of it's existing functionality. This may grow into something that can be ported, but I doubt it given that it doesn't live within the constraints of the existing kernel environment. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message