Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1

Bill Davidsen
2002-09-23T19:18:19Z

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Peter Waechtler wrote:

> Am Montag den, 23. September 2002, um 12:05, schrieb Bill Davidsen:
>
> > On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Larry McVoy wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 08:55:39PM +0200, Peter Waechtler wrote:
> >>> AIX and Irix deploy M:N - I guess for a good reason: it's more
> >>> flexible and combine both approaches with easy runtime tuning if
> >>> the app happens to run on SMP (the uncommon case).
> >>
> >> No, AIX and IRIX do it that way because their processes are so bloated
> >> that it would be unthinkable to do a 1:1 model.
> >
> > And BSD? And Solaris?
>
> Don't know. I don't have access to all those Unices. I could try FreeBSD.

At your convenience.

> According to http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html Sun is moving to 1:1
> and FreeBSD still believes in M:N

Sun is total news to me, "moving to" may be in Solaris 9, Sol8 seems to
still be N:M. BSD is as I thought.
>
> MacOSX 10.1 does not support PROCESS_SHARED locks, tried that 5 minutes
> ago.

Thank you for the effort. Hum, that's a bit of a surprise, at least to me.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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