From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 29 12:04:55 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA27709 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 12:04:55 -0800 Received: from MIT.EDU (SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.72.1.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA27702 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 12:04:53 -0800 Received: from JIMI.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA14266; Wed, 29 Mar 95 15:04:37 EST Received: by jimi.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA17866; Wed, 29 Mar 95 15:04:36 -0500 Message-Id: <9503292004.AA17866@jimi.MIT.EDU> To: Brian Tao Cc: dayton@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-realtime@hda.com, pschung@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu Subject: Re: Posix thread library In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Mar 1995 02:02:20 GMT." Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 15:04:36 EST From: Christopher Provenzano Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On Wed, 29 Mar 1995, Dayton Clark wrote: > > > > Threads were available on FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 (libpthread). > > 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 > CAP