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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: kernel threads in 2.2 ?
In-Reply-To: <199703210558.VAA00318@zebedee.local> from Tony Jones at "Mar 20, 97 09:58:33 pm"
To: tony@rtd.com (Tony Jones)
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 02:12:56 -0500 (EST)
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> 
> I thought I'd read somewhere last year that 2.2 (-current at the time)
> had thread support in the kernel, such that a Pthread would use a kernel 
> thread.
> 
Not yet.  There is some support for threads (with rfork), but we still
need to add some VM support to do it right.

>
> >From what I read in the man pages, it looks like the 2.2 libc_r threads
> package is still a user mode implementation.
> 
> Is this correct ? Are there plans for a native kernel threads at some 
> time (I'm not talking about the kernel itself being threaded).
> 
Definitely.

John