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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: threads
From:       Jo Dillon <emily () thelonious ! new ! ox ! ac ! uk>
Date:       1999-12-03 15:25:15
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Stephan Kulow (coolo@kde.org) spake thusly:
> >   No, you didn't ;) Well, only that by 'userspace threads' I was
> > thinking of /preemptive/ user-space threads (which are possible
> > and do exist), not cooperative ones.
> > 
> What you mean are lightweight processes. These are even less portable
> afaik :)

  Hrrmph. No I don't ;) LWPs are a Solaris thing. I'm talking about
userspace implementations based upon a few lines of assembly and
some Unix signals; these are reasonably portable and do exist. They're
certainly more portable than kernel patches ;)

-- 

	Jo

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