Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 10:22:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Congrats on CURRENT 5/1 SNAP... Message-ID: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960521101939.13740A-100000@covina.lightside.com> In-Reply-To: <199605210521.WAA29987@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Mon, 20 May 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > Which LWP? The SunOS 4.x LWP, which is a user space library that > uses aioread/aiowrite/aiowait/aiocancel, or the kernel threads in > Solaris, also called LWP's? > > "There are no SunOS 4.x LWP's, there are only Solaris LWP's!" > "We have *always* been at war with the East!" > "There is no Dana, only Zuul!" > > The SunOS LWP's are pretty easy. > > The Solaris LWP's are a bit harder. They require kernel preemption and > multithreading. I suspect it is the latter, as /usr/openwin/bin/ttsession is linked to libthread.so.1. BTW, since most Openwindows Deskset apps use ToolTalk to varying degrees (as does CDE), they will have problems in its absence. ---Jake
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