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Date:      Thu, 15 Jul 1999 17:47:00 -0700
From:      "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To:        "Terry Lambert" <tlambert@primenet.com>, "Tani Hosokawa" <unknown@riverstyx.net>
Cc:        <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Known MMAP() race conditions ... ?
Message-ID:  <000001becf24$b6b12eb0$021d85d1@youwant.to>
In-Reply-To: <199907160006.RAA15994@usr07.primenet.com>

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> > So, what we get back to is, what's one thing that's wrong with FreeBSD?
> > Threads.
>
> That's actually "what's wrong with applications?".  The closest you
> can get to blaiming FreeBSD for this is "why can't FreeBSD run
> these applications that rely on threads in an SMP scalable way?".  I
> could easily ask a similar question: "why can't FreeBSD run Microsoft
> Office 2000?".

	No, there is a legitimate question here that you are evading. Why does
FreeBSD block a whole process if one thread blocks? There is no requirement
that it do so. The standards suggest otherwise. FreeBSD's support of POSIX
threads is deficient.

	DS



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