I've always been unable to understand the utility of kernel threads:
perhaps you can explain it.
> Pardon me if I seem a little confrontational, I'm not the only one who
> sees clone() as costly. Also, compare these to Solaris thread creation
Rob Pike pointed out that the solution to slow process creation is
faster process creation, not another kernel abstraction.
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