On Tue, Jan 29, 2002, Ingmar Schuster wrote:
> I was wondering how difficult it would be to port Pth to kernellevel;
> preferably a microkernel. Is Pth suited for such use?
Hmmm... I've never though about such a situation myself (because Pth was
intended as a pure user-land MT facility already from the first day),
but I think it is possible. Because Pth has all the machine context
switching abstracted in pth_mctx.c. So, the main task is to replace
this with the switching the microkernel uses. Additionally, if the
microkernel itself is thread, it might be necessary to use a microkernel
mutex at various places inside Pth's internals if Pth changes its
structures. But start hacking at pth_mctx.c...
Ralf S. Engelschall
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