* FengYue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001128 16:32] wrote:
>
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
> ->> I thought it's preemptive purely at user-level since the threads are
> ->> scheduled by thread lib at user-level only. No?
> ->
> ->What are you asking? Give a scenario and I'll explain what should
> ->happen.
> ->
>
> Hmm, actually I don't know in which case it'd be considered as "preemptive
> at kernel level"... In the case where a thread calls a syscall and gets
> blocked, the entire process gets blocked not just that thread. In
> the case where the syscalls are converted to asynchronous calls, would
> this be the case?
No it wouldn't. The async nature of the call would prevent the
process from blocking therefore the threads wouldn't block either
blocking.
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