Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 02:12:56 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: tony@rtd.com (Tony Jones) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel threads in 2.2 ? Message-ID: <199703210712.CAA11415@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199703210558.VAA00318@zebedee.local> from Tony Jones at "Mar 20, 97 09:58:33 pm"
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> > I thought I'd read somewhere last year that 2.2 (-current at the time) > had thread support in the kernel, such that a Pthread would use a kernel > thread. > Not yet. There is some support for threads (with rfork), but we still need to add some VM support to do it right. > > >From what I read in the man pages, it looks like the 2.2 libc_r threads > package is still a user mode implementation. > > Is this correct ? Are there plans for a native kernel threads at some > time (I'm not talking about the kernel itself being threaded). > Definitely. John
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