Threads (Was Re: Multiprocessor support)

1998-01-28 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 02:38:55PM -0700, Steve Mayer wrote: Debian as a distribution has nothing to do with multiprocessor support. I'm not so sure about this. I'm not really familiar with threads (any pointers to basic documentation/articles?), but I recall that it is possible to distribute

Re: Threads (Was Re: Multiprocessor support)

1998-01-28 Thread Steve Mayer
True, but having the threads library does not enable the kernel to handle multiple processors. Threads will allow you to make a multithreaded application that will spawn separate threads even on a single processor machine. Two different aspects I believe. My point being that the kernel itself