Date: Mon, 12 Jun 95 18:07:31 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LWP, anyone? Message-ID: <9506130007.AA12874@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <9506122153.AA02517@gnu.mc.xerox.com> from "Marty Leisner" at Jun 12, 95 02:53:10 pm
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[ ... LWP ... ] ] > This is not a pthreads competitor. ] > ] > This is an API compatability issue for many, many SunOS 4.x (x>1) ] > applications. ] > ] > ] Which applications use the sun LWP package? ] ] I learned it and found it useless since no thread can block in ] a system call... The ones in the internals classes at Weber, for one. 8-). There are several commercial products (Sybase?) that use the async I/O that comes part-and-parcel with the changes (it was added for LWP). There are several multiuser daemons that use it to (one http server that you'd have to talk to someone besides me [ie: actually at Weber] about). The async I/O is probably the bix win, but since cooperative tasking and register state save also find some of the components useful, it might as well go in as the whole ball of wax (considering it's free). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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