Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 12:56:51 -0500 (EST) From: "Alexander N. Kabaev" <kabaev@mail.ru> To: Jordan DeLong <fracture@allusion.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD pthreads Message-ID: <XFMail.20010304125651.kabaev@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <20010304101847.A8709@cx420564-b.tucson1.az.home.com>
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On 04-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... Why do you think that clone syscall on Linux is any different than rfork with appropriate parameters on FreeBSD? > 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? > > -Jordan There is nothing clone syscall can offer which cannot be done with rfork, so implementing it would be a waste of time, IMHO. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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