Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
Sent by: tech-kern-owner@netbsd.org
06/21/2003 01:49 AM
 
        To:     Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>
        cc:     current-users@netbsd.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org
        Subject:        Re: libpthread

 

On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 02:47:08AM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> But are there solid plans underway to give NetBSD 1x1
> and MxN kernel threading

>MxN is what the SA code does, so NetBSD currently does that. The issue
>is that it's not release quality yet. 1x1 has been possible for a while
>with the clone(2) system call. It's Linux compatible, so you could
>compile linuxthreads on NetBSD with some minor adjustments.

If you have MxN support, then thats good news.
Linux 2.4.1 assigns a single thread to each thread/process created in 
user-space.
The code in Linux is release-quality, but the design is awful.
and like all things linux, there is a major overhaul underway to fix that 
problem.

regards
-kamal