Darren Reed wrote:
> Given that NetBSD doesn't support threads and it doesn't look like it will
> in the foreseeable future, is there an implementation of malloc() that
> uses shared memory ?  If not, could the malloc() that uses mmap() and
> /dev/zero be hacked to do this easily ?

NetBSD _does_ support them :) Almost full Linux clone(2) is emulated.
Some people reported problems with it (or at least StarOffice 4.0
which uses Linux clone()) though :( 
There is no separate clone(2) syscall under NetBSD AFAICS though.

Klaus Klein and others had done tremendous work in making
libries thread-safe too. Everything is becoming ready for threads.

Take care,

Jaromir Dolecek
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