Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 15:04:36 EST From: Christopher Provenzano <proven@MIT.EDU> To: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> Cc: dayton@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-realtime@hda.com, pschung@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu Subject: Re: Posix thread library Message-ID: <9503292004.AA17866@jimi.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Mar 1995 02:02:20 GMT." <Pine.BSI.3.91.950330020029.6671P-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw>
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> On Wed, 29 Mar 1995, Dayton Clark wrote:
> >
> > Threads were available on FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 (libpthread).
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> There's a pthread library available on a 32-CPU KSR box I used to
> work on. It provided routines for farming out work to CPU's in a
> multiprocessor box. Is this the same thing?
No, it is a library implementation of the POSIX thread spec (currently
at draft 10) with wrapper routines for many of the syscalls to prevent
a thread from blocking the entire process. There is no support yet for
multiprocessor machines yet.
> --
> Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
> taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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