Terry Lambert wrote:

Stijn Hoop wrote:


On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:54:45PM -0500, Jeff Roberson wrote:


I have commited libthr. To try this out you'll need to do the following


I know very very little about threads, but I'm interested as to what the
purpose is of this library. Is there a document available somewhere that
describes the relationships between this, KSE, libc_r, pthreads, the
Giant-unwinding-make-SMP-work-better project and some of the other
threads and SMP related libraries and terminology?



Here's a thumbnail sketch, though (forgive me, KSE folks, if I mung it too badly):


Good explanations Terry! Even I could understand it :)


If this is all reasonably accurate enough for everyone, could it be marked up for a FAQ or Handbook entry? As we move towards a 5-STABLE I think it would be useful to have a document to point to that describes these things.

I'm happy to do the markup if you're happy for your words (or a close approximation) to be used.

Thanks.

Andrew.

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