Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:43:21 +0100 From: "Nuno Antunes" <nuno.antunes@gmail.com> To: "Ruslan Ermilov" <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Subject: Re: KSE, libpthread & libthr: almost newbie question Message-ID: <262949390610270643i3ce7e9f6k35862587ac546d52@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20061027094922.GC6613@rambler-co.ru> References: <917908193.20061027102647@serebryakov.spb.ru> <ehshjl$dsp$1@sea.gmane.org> <20061027094922.GC6613@rambler-co.ru>
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On 10/27/06, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> wrote: > KSE == N:M threading > > A 1:1 threading (libthr) is much simpler than N:M threading (libpthread), > and thus doesn't require KSE support in the kernel; see kse(2) manpage > for details. Without the KSE option in the kernel, all kse(2) syscalls > will return EOPNOTSUPP, and a lot of code becomes redundant. > IIRC, I can even remember libpthread being originaly named libkse. Regards, Nuno
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