Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 18:47:29 -0700 From: Bill Huey (Hui) <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Linux threading model Message-ID: <20020923014729.GA3362@gnuppy.monkey.org> In-Reply-To: <3D8B62DB.C27B7E07@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10209200002280.2162-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> <3D8B62DB.C27B7E07@mindspring.com>
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On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:03:07AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > By going to 1:1, they dodge this issue; but in so doing, they > increase threads overhead to that of processes: threads become > a mechanism for sharing some resources: the moral equivalent of > the old rfork()/sfork() system calls for heap and descriptor > space sharing, with seperate stacks. Conceptually this is definitely the case, but this says otherwise for the particular operations they outline in this email: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0209.2/1581.html Not sure what to think about this... bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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