On 04-Mar-2001 Jordan DeLong wrote:
> Hey; I've got a question about the pthread implementation on freebsd. I was
> looking it over and noticed that the pthread library is green; which is
> disadvantagous on SMP machines. I found a port of the linux pthreads, but it
> uses rfork() to create the new threads...
Why do you think that clone syscall on Linux is any different than rfork with
appropriate parameters on FreeBSD?
> Anyway; I was curious if a clone() call is in the works for freebsd 5.0? And
> if not, is there much interest in getting one at some point, or are there
> other
> factors that'd make implemention of one right now more difficult than it
> would
> seem?
>
> -Jordan
There is nothing clone syscall can offer which cannot be done with rfork, so
implementing it would be a waste of time, IMHO.
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