From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Apr  2 17:14:29 2003
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00CE537B401
	for <current@freebsd.org>; Wed,  2 Apr 2003 17:14:29 -0800 (PST)
Received: from pc-80-195-57-71-ll.blueyonder.co.uk
	(pc-80-195-57-71-ll.blueyonder.co.uk [80.195.57.71])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2173E43FAF
	for <current@freebsd.org>; Wed,  2 Apr 2003 17:14:28 -0800 (PST)
	(envelope-from andrew@cream.org)
Received: from cream.org (spatula.home [192.168.0.4])
	by gateway.home (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id D113354EA; Thu,  3 Apr 2003 02:14:25 +0100 (BST)
Message-ID: <3E8B8AF1.4010303@cream.org>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 02:14:25 +0100
From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030321
X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, en-us
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
References: <20030331225124.W64602-100000@mail.chesapeake.net>
	<20030402083026.GB83512@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
	<3E8AAAA1.CB4B51B0@mindspring.com>
In-Reply-To: <3E8AAAA1.CB4B51B0@mindspring.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
cc: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
cc: current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: libthr and 1:1 threading.
X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
	<freebsd-current.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 01:14:29 -0000

Terry Lambert wrote:

>Stijn Hoop wrote:
>  
>
>>On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:54:45PM -0500, Jeff Roberson wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>I have commited libthr.  To try this out you'll need to do the following
>>>      
>>>
>>I know very very little about threads, but I'm interested as to what the
>>purpose is of this library. Is there a document available somewhere that
>>describes the relationships between this, KSE, libc_r, pthreads, the
>>Giant-unwinding-make-SMP-work-better project and some of the other
>>threads and SMP related libraries and terminology?
>>    
>>
>
>Here's a thumbnail sketch, though (forgive me, KSE folks, if I mung
>it too badly):
>

Good explanations Terry! Even I could understand it :)

If this is all reasonably accurate enough for everyone, could it be 
marked up for a FAQ or Handbook entry? As we move towards a 5-STABLE I 
think it would be useful to have a document to point to that describes 
these things.

I'm happy to do the markup if you're happy for your words (or a close 
approximation) to be used.

Thanks.

Andrew.