At 09.06 Tuesday 20/08/02 -0400, you wrote: > The key thing to remember is that Linus and others do not wish to > implement Kernel-Level threading (pre-emptive kernel threading may be > coming in 2.5/6) as they do not agree with the basic concept.
They are not preemptive but they run in kernel space. > Instead, they rely off of an emulation system to "pretend" to be > like a light-weight threading system. In reality they're implemented as > "cloned" processes. From the Java-Linux programming guide from sun: Yes, what I meant is that they are threads at the end: same address space, same file descriptors, SMP can execute them in parallel and so on, even if they show up as processes in the process table and their creation is faster on solaris. Maybe one problem could come from the fact that the process table has a limit, and if the application spawn too many threads, being counted as processes, soon or later there could be no more free entries in the table. -- Rd "Soft as the massacre of Suns By Evening's Sabres slain" [E.Dickinson] ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-linux%40houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_linux or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
