> I see that the goals from this page > (http://oss.software.ibm.com/pthreads/) also include an M:N mapping of > sorts. This would potentially be very useful in the L4 port of the Hurd > which I am quietly working on as well. The problem with an N:M mapping in the L4 context is this: Only a native L4 thread can reliably ipc_receive a message. As long as a 1:1 mapping is used, this won't be a problem. When you move to a N:M mapping, things can get hairy. I hope that the NGPT people have thought about such issues before crafting a N:M mapping (unless they didn't plan to use NGPT outside a Linux environment).
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