On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 02:37:35PM -0400, Adam wrote: > Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Threads a big PITA. Best avoided. Creates more problems than solves. > > > > OpenBSD is about neatness, cleanliness and stability. > > > > Threads don't have any of them. :-) > > First of all, threads are a good choice for some tasks. Just because > openbsd's threading support isn't as good as it could be, doesn't mean > threads are bad. And even if this were the case, it would still not > change the fact that plenty of software uses threads, and people would > like to run such software on openbsd. > > Adam I dont want to prolong this discussion lest it gets emotional.
You should take a look at these links. http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Ousterhout/Threads/index.shtml http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ Basically my humble opinion is that computer science professors without any real world experience and Solaris folks have glorified threading... I don't like them and my educated guess is that nobody in the OpenBSD camp likes them either... It is my personal opinion and I have a right to hold it. :-) Best, Girish
