Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 22:51:30 -0800 From: Craig Shaver <craig@progroup.com> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fcntl, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK & /dev/null Message-ID: <32FC2272.41C67EA6@progroup.com> References: <199702080220.VAA14428@dyson.iquest.net>
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John S. Dyson wrote: > > > > > Is there any work being done for implementing kernel threads? I would > > think this would be very important for a robust, real-world usable, > > thread package. > > > That is one of my interests. Doug Santry is also interested. Certainly > don't want to 'claim' the project until I start. I have some ideas, > and in conjunction with some of Doug's work, I think that we could > have a really good thread's capability. I have a VM experiment to > do first (relocatable kernel stack, totally shared VM space.) If > that works, we'll have a start on a really good mechanism. > > John Do you have a time frame for when this may start? I could volunteer some time beginning in March, to develop some test programs, demos, and bench- marks. Would this be helpful? Please let me know. Thanks for the feedback ... -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088
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