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On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 10:04:01AM +0000, john doe wrote:
> Hi,
>  how can you view process threads on freebsd 4.9? There appears to be no=
=20
> option in ps,top or something in /usr/ports.

Under 4.x threading is done in userland, so it is invisible to the
kernel.  Under 5.x the default is to use kernel-supported threads,
which are visible to ps, top, et al.

Kris

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