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Date:      Sun, 4 Mar 2001 13:02:25 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        Jordan DeLong <fracture@allusion.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD pthreads
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010304125910.10469A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010304101847.A8709@cx420564-b.tucson1.az.home.com>

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On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Jordan DeLong 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

see rfork_thread(3).  A pthreads implementation using it is in the works
for 5.0.

> 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?

-- 
Dan Eischen

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