Hi Ray! Thanks for your quick reply!
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > [...] > Some people's definition of that seems to > include hybrid user and kernel space threading, and in that case, the > statement is correct. Is this a big disadvantage for Linux compared to other OSes? > [...] > LinuxThreads (an implementation of POSIX threads; see > http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/linuxthreads/) has been available as an > add-on to glibc and even libc5 for a long time. I'm fairly sure potato does > threads, and possibly even slink. Doing a "/lib/libc-2.1.3.so" on my potato system shows linuxthreads-0.8 by Xavier Leroy So, I think potato *does* kernel threads, right? > [...] > Other thread implementations (mostly userspace) are available as well; see > e.g. http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~mueller/pthreads/ Is that implementation preferrable to the linuxthreads package that can be compiled into glibc? If so, for what reasons? Thanks for your help! Greetings, Holger
