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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: fcntl, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK & /dev/null
To: craig@progroup.com (Craig Shaver)
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> 
> Is there any work being done for implementing kernel threads?  I would 
> think this would be very important for a robust, real-world usable,
> thread package.
> 
That is one of my interests.  Doug Santry is also interested.  Certainly
don't want to 'claim' the project until I start.  I have some ideas,
and in conjunction with some of Doug's work, I think that we could
have a really good thread's capability.  I have a VM experiment to
do first (relocatable kernel stack, totally shared VM space.)  If
that works, we'll have a start on a really good mechanism.

John