From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 2 14:42:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65B1514DE4 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 14:42:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grossjoh@ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de) Received: from ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (ramses.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.180]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP id XAA19725; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 23:42:15 +0100 (MET) Received: (grossjoh@localhost) by ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de id XAA09839; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 23:42:13 +0100 To: "Vladimir Votiakov" Cc: Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD a multithread system? References: <001301be63d0$f91912f0$104586c0@aigle.ais.berger-levrault.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE Date: 02 Mar 1999 23:42:13 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Vladimir Votiakov"'s message of "Mon, 1 Mar 1999 11:47:58 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070079 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.79) Emacs/20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Vladimir Votiakov" 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 -- I like _b_o_t_h kinds of music. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message