From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Oct 31 18:21:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3327B14BD7 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 18:21:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA01229 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 03:21:30 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id DAA69330 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 03:21:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BDA914BD7 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 18:21:22 -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 (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA08275; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 19:21:21 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id TAA13961; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 19:21:20 -0700 Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 19:21:20 -0700 Message-Id: <199911010221.TAA13961@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Julian Elischer Cc: Nate Williams , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Threads models and FreeBSD. In-Reply-To: References: <199911010158.SAA13775@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > ok gimme a better wording.. yours leads me to wonder if there is > > > somethign special about the mamory a particular thread's stack is on.. > > > > That's the only thing that is not 'shared' across threads. Everything > > else is shared. > > but that's wrong.. the memory is shared.. > only the %sp register is differnet.. Right, my bad. Here's what I wrote to Sean. Thread share everything that a normal process, including a thread-specific stack which is used to keep each thread's context seperate from one another. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message