Re: Kernel threads useable by mortals?

Robert W Boyer (rboyer@interramp.com)
Wed, 17 Apr 1996 22:54:51 -0400


At 10:30 AM 4/17/96 +0100, you wrote:
>> I guess your best bet would be pthreads, but I don't know anything about
>> that, so I'll leave it for someone else to answer.
>
>The right answer is to make pthreads and/or lwp try to use clone.
>
>

I'm attempting to get some volunteers lined up to do this. The
implementation should also provide the capability to multiplex n user space
threads onto x kernel space threads (ie concurrency vs. parallelism).
Anybody out there up to the task? I don't know if I'll ever complete it
myself (i've got a daytime job)

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