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Date:      02 Mar 1999 23:42:13 +0100
From:      Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE
To:        "Vladimir Votiakov" <vvot@ais.Berger-Levrault.fr>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Is FreeBSD a multithread system?
Message-ID:  <vafr9r7pl8a.fsf@ramses.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
In-Reply-To: "Vladimir Votiakov"'s message of "Mon, 1 Mar 1999 11:47:58 %2B0100"
References:  <001301be63d0$f91912f0$104586c0@aigle.ais.berger-levrault.fr>

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"Vladimir Votiakov" <vvot@ais.Berger-Levrault.fr> writes:

  > Is FreeBSD a multithread system?

BSD is a multi-user, multi-tasking operating system.  Multi-tasking
means that it can run several processes each in their own protected
memory space.

When you say multithreading I think of lightweight processes.  FreeBSD
includes the Posix Threads library, so it is possible to write
multithreaded programs.  I don't think that a significant number of
the existing programs that come with FreeBSD is multithreaded,
though.  (Java comes to mind as an exception.)

kai
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