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From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Fabio Yasusi Yamamoto <fabio@hostname.org>
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Subject: Re: pthreads + msgrcv
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On Wed, 29 May 2002, Fabio Yasusi Yamamoto wrote:

> i'm trying to use "pthread" with "ipc messages".
> For a reason I don't know it stops ( block )the entire process.
>
> I?ve read that it happens because of the pthreads implementation, wich is "user level" and not "Kernel level".
>
> I already solved this problem using IPC_NOWAIT,
> but it's not a good way. Does anybody knows another way I can solve it?
>
> There are plans to freebsd implement this as kernel level?

Kernel threading is due for FreeBSD 5.0.

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