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From: Christopher Quinn <cq@htec.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: finer grained threading?
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:37:43 +0100
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To: Christopher Quinn <cq@htec.demon.co.uk>
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I'm tripping over myself...
the 'feature' I'm after is as originally stated, not as might or might 
not be fulfilled by DECthreads/LinuxThreads
ie. ability to register interest in/ receive noticification of, 
page-fault events.

sorry,
chris

Christopher Quinn wrote:
> Ah!  As suspected I am not the first to think about this!  I have just 
> found a DECthreads page mentioning upcalls and the ability to switch 
> threads on a page fault event.
> 
> Is it correct to say LinuxThreads(pthreads impl.) cannot offer this 
> feature?
> Any suggestions for alternative thread packages for linux that do?
> 
> cheers,
> chris Q.
>