Re: Linux threads -- as seen in NT Magazine

Paul Barton-Davis (pbd@Op.Net)
Thu, 10 Dec 1998 14:45:50 -0500


I wrote:

>However, I don't think that dealing only with tasks is very elegant. I
>think it is a hangover from the pre-clone(2) days. It works well right
>now because there are very few (any ?) multithreaded applications that
>want to use MP hardware creatively. So, I think there is a very
>elegant mechanism (clone(2)) that can be very elegantly used because
^^^^^^^
>of schedule().

Duh. Make that:

So, I think there is a very elegant mechanism (clone(2)) that *CANNOT*
be very elegantly used because of schedule().

--p

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