From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Nov 13 20: 3:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 9F063152A3; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 20:03:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F57B1CD445; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 20:03:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 20:03:09 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: threads.... In-Reply-To: <382E30FB.7C2AE085@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > Here's a perfect example of when threads matter.. i want the newest > version of Licq. The newest, with all recent fixes, is 0.71. But i > have to DL 0.61 because after that they became THREADED! I hope we have > threads (kernel) soon. We already have threads. How exactly does licq (an ICQ client) rely on kernel-supported threads (only needed for some level of SMP scalability?) Kris ---- Cthulhu for President! For when you're tired of choosing the _lesser_ of two evils.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message