Re: Kernel threads useable by mortals?

Ingo Molnar (mingo@pc5829.hil.siemens.co.at)
Fri, 19 Apr 1996 10:13:42 +0200 (MET DST)


On 19 Apr 1996, Larry McVoy wrote:

> Use clone(), it's cool. It's plan9ish. It's less filling. It tastes great.
> It doesn't add a bunch of kernel bloat we don't need. You feel more studly
> when you are done. You'll have done the world a good turn. Really.

The guy from DEC who makes DCE for Linux (cant remember his name), he
wrote once in c.o.l.d that he tried to make clone() based DCE Posix
threads, but he saw several "limitations" which make it "impossible"
to implement clone() based Posix threads libraries. Is anyone aware
of such limitations?

-- mingo