Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 11:13:26 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Subject: Re: RFC: Kernel thread system nomenclature. Message-ID: <3B49F446.59D24F58@mindspring.com> References: <XFMail.010706161600.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > One other note. #2 is conceptually a related group of > #4's, so I think it's name should reflect that. (It's > view as a group of #4's is more important than as being > a part of #1.) So, if you go with lwp (yuck) for #4, #2 > should be lwpgrp or some such. I still think lwp's > overloaded nomenclature is a reason to stay away from it. > *shrug* I agree. SunOS 4.1.3 had a "liblwp", which was basically a user space threading library. Solaris/SVR4 pushes this into the kernel because of SMP scaling (if the only tool you have is threads, everything looks like it's "solved" by threads). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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