From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:50:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:50:46 -0400 Received: from tangens.hometree.net ([212.34.181.34]:37052 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:50:32 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: forge.intermeta.de!not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: Alan Cox quote? Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:50:30 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: <9gokvm$ilf$1@forge.intermeta.de> In-Reply-To: <3B2F769C.DCDB790E@kegel.com> <200106192112.f5JLC1T16528@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 992991030 12156 212.34.181.4 (19 Jun 2001 22:50:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:50:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2001 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Richard Gooch writes: >New FAQ entry: http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s7-21 >Yeah, it's probably a bit harsh :-) While I basically agree, there is still the fact that a popular real world programming language uses [native] threads on a regular base and it would be nice if the Linux platform would at least support a moderate number of threads, even if it is not too popular or even considered stupid by the kernel developers. In the end, the kernel should try to support the user space. And if the user space applications want to use threads, well... :-) No, I don't want to program the kernel in Java. But I don't want to program my user space in C#, either. Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de Am Schwabachgrund 22 Fon.: 09131 / 50654-0 info@intermeta.de D-91054 Buckenhof Fax.: 09131 / 50654-20