--- Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de> wrote: >
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> > Besides the short & very precise description by Lennart and the
> article
> > cited by Uwe, the book "Unix Internals: The New Frontier" by Uresh
> Vahalia
> > contains a chapter on continuations and how the are implemented in
> Mach
> > that might be useful reading.
> 
> Another interesting bit (mostly ignoring the OS this is targetted
> at):
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9704.3/0282.html
> describes the environment in which continuations come in handy.
> 
> 
>  - hubert
> 
> -- 
> Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>

Are continuations directly related to thread migration (not moving
between CPU's but moving say a client's thread into the server to do
the work for the client)? The mail archive kind of suggests this, so I
am just curios - are they based on the same concept or are they just
coincidentally similar?

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