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Date:      Sun, 31 Oct 1999 22:41:26 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        julian@whistle.com, nate@mt.sri.com
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Threads goals  version II
Message-ID:  <199911010341.WAA19654@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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> > 10/ Quick access to curthread and thread specific data.  We shouldn't
> >        have to enter the kernel to get this.  This should also be true
> >        for threads spread across multiple [lightweight] processes.
> 
> The last sentence is redundant, since threads are by definition
> lightweight processes. :)

Well, that wasn't the intent.  My use of lightweight process was to
mean a process.  I believe that threads and lightweight processes
mean different things in Solaris.  Reword it any way you see fit.

Dan Eischen
eischen@vigrid.com




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