Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 17:47:00 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert@primenet.com>, "Tani Hosokawa" <unknown@riverstyx.net> Cc: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Known MMAP() race conditions ... ? Message-ID: <000001becf24$b6b12eb0$021d85d1@youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <199907160006.RAA15994@usr07.primenet.com>
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> > > So, what we get back to is, what's one thing that's wrong with FreeBSD? > > Threads. > > That's actually "what's wrong with applications?". The closest you > can get to blaiming FreeBSD for this is "why can't FreeBSD run > these applications that rely on threads in an SMP scalable way?". I > could easily ask a similar question: "why can't FreeBSD run Microsoft > Office 2000?". No, there is a legitimate question here that you are evading. Why does FreeBSD block a whole process if one thread blocks? There is no requirement that it do so. The standards suggest otherwise. FreeBSD's support of POSIX threads is deficient. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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