> this is exactly what an interface like mincore() is designed for. the
> application, or an underlying threads library, can use it to avoid page
> faults that would block all the threads running in an address space.
that's yucky. there's a fairly well-established body of work
including Mach Scheduler Activations (Bershad, I think) for
doing this much nicer. rather than forcing the app to fantically
poll the kernel to keep its threads running, SA's let the kernel
notify the thread manager when a thread blocks...
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