On Friday, June 29, 2001, E.B. Dreger wrote:
> Am I correct that libc_r does _not_ use multiple processes to create
> threads? Grepping for "fork" in *.c files under /usr/src/lib/libc_r leads
> me to believe that this is so...
That's correct. It's implemented using setjmp/longjmp, and
storing stack pointers and the like in thread-specific data
structures.
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