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Date:      Mon, 1 Nov 1999 07:26:39 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, michael.schuster@germany.sun.com
Subject:   Re: Threads goals  version III
Message-ID:  <199911011226.HAA11398@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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> - a mechanism for mapping _one_or_more_ userland threads (within the
> same process) to a kernel thread. Solaris (yes, I'm biased :-) uses the
> term lightweight process here (so, to contradict Dan, if I remember
> correctly, this is not the same thing).

Actually, I'm the one who said a Solaris [pthread] thread is not
equivalent to a lightweight process.  In Solaris, there are:

  o Application [user] threads which run over one or more
    lightweight processes.
  o Lightweight processes which run on kernel threads
  o Kernel threads as the basic scheduling entity - these
    do not have to be mapped to an LWP

Dan Eischen
eischen@vigrid.com




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