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- From: adh@cbnews.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
- Subject: Re: lwp (threads) in SunOS kernel
- Organization: guess
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:56:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.155627.15411@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: lwp, threads, SunOS, kernel
- References: <1993Jan25.032813.10434@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- jrm2k@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Jeff Michel) writes:
- "Is this all a fluke? Is there support (eg. a manual or commented header
- "file) for using threads in the kernel? What differences exist between the
- "threads at the kernel level and at the user level? Is it safe to use kernel
- "threads in a device driver?
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- i was told [apropos my q. is lwp in the sunos5 compat lib] that *no*
- special kernel resources were added to support lwp; it's all in the
- standard c lib.
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