Re: ucontext

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:51:46PM +0000, Sad Clouds wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what ucontext(2) and related functions can be used for? 
> Reading man pages it seems to suggest that you can get and set threads 
> context. Would this be similar to creating a new thread with pthread_create()?

You can use them to implement a 1:m thread library like FreeBSD's libc_r
as machine independent code.

Joerg