On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:12:58PM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
> When this is done a multithreaded app using nathanw_sa running on
> an SMP will be able to have different threads running on multiple processors
> simultaneously (ignoring scheduling issues)?  However, currently a
> multithreaded app can't take advantage of multiple processors since it
> is still really only a single process?

Yes.

>      How would a program go about using nathanw_sa?  Would there simply
> be a pthread library provided by the system, then any program that uses
> pthreads would simply do the right thing?

Exactly.  There is a src/lib/libpthread on the branch.

-allen

-- 
 Allen Briggs                     briggs@wasabisystems.com
 http://www.wasabisystems.com/    Quality NetBSD CDs, Sales, Support, Service
NetBSD development for Alpha, ARM, M68K, MIPS, PowerPC, SuperH, XScale, etc...