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From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To: Olaf Wagner <wagner@luthien.in-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Threading Documentation
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* Olaf Wagner <wagner@luthien.in-berlin.de> [080210 18:37] wrote:
> I haven't found much, so I think I'll have to ask here after all:
> 
> Is there any overview article or design document about the
> different threading implementations in FreeBSD?

There have been a few approaches taken over the years,
an N-1(libc_r), N-M(libkse) and N-N (libthr).

Currently FreeBSD supports pthreads using libthr which
is pretty much the same way that Solaris and Linux support
pthreads.

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- Alfred Perlstein