Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 09:55:03 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Jordan DeLong <fracture@allusion.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD pthreads Message-ID: <20010304095502.N8663@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20010304101847.A8709@cx420564-b.tucson1.az.home.com>; from fracture@allusion.net on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 10:18:47AM %2B0000 References: <20010304101847.A8709@cx420564-b.tucson1.az.home.com>
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* Jordan DeLong <fracture@allusion.net> [010304 09:27] wrote: > Hey; I've got a question about the pthread implementation on freebsd. I was > looking it over and noticed that the pthread library is green; which is > disadvantagous on SMP machines. I found a port of the linux pthreads, but it > uses rfork() to create the new threads... > > Anyway; I was curious if a clone() call is in the works for freebsd 5.0? And > if not, is there much interest in getting one at some point, or are there other > factors that'd make implemention of one right now more difficult than it would > seem? What's the difference between clone() and rfork()? Last I checked they were pretty much the same. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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