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Date:      Mon, 01 Nov 1999 09:48:41 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Threads models and FreeBSD.
Message-ID:  <381CE369.C28FB9A3@newsguy.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910311156210.8816-100000@home.elischer.org> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910311201120.8816-100000@home.elischer.org> <199910312340.QAA12893@mt.sri.com>

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Nate Williams wrote:
> 
> > 3/ Inability of one thread to block aother thread unless they are
> > intentionally synchronising.
> 
> I think this can be dropped, since it's both confusing and almost
> contradictory.  There is no such way to 'block' a regular process,
> although one can stop it in Unix, so the issue of blocking implies a
> blocking on something, which is allowed.
> 
> > 10/ your ideas here. Note, you an also suggest that I remove an idea.
> 
> The ability for a process to have multiple threads active in the kernel
> (system calls) without stopping the process the threads are busy in.

This is a subset of the one you think can be dropped. :-) Maybe it
should rather be reworded?

--
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org

	"People call him Neutron Star, 'cuz he's so dense lights bends
around him."





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