---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:50:29 +0800 (PHT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: True Computer Science Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [plug] Process creation overhead: *nix vs. Linux
I believe on Sun, 14 Mar 2004, it was Andy Sy who wrote: > Andy Sy wrote: > > > ...instead of struggling with hard-to-debug threads in cases where > > you actually want the memory protection offered by processes > > (something threads don't have) but could not use them before due... > > i.e. to control access to resources which you have to 'manually' protect > via semaphores if you were to use threads... SysV semaphores involving locking this shared process threads are very well supported on most linux systems. Though, there is a newer threading library in 2.6 kernels supporting, or rather 'specializing' the _POSIX_THREAD_SHARED. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - stderr(Cagayan de Oro, 'Federalismo!') -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
