threading in FreeBSD (acx_pthreads)
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Tue Feb 5 00:39:21 PST 2008
"Karl H. Beckers" <karl.h.beckers at gmx.net> writes:
> Any idea what the original author of acx_pthreads has meant by
> -lkthread and lthread? (Am trying to ask him himself, but his
> spamassassin doesn't like me ;) )
liblthread is devel/linuxthreads - a FreeBSD port of the old linux
thread library, which simulated threads using processes. See rfork(2)
for an idea of how this was done. On Linux, it was named libkthread; I
don't think FreeBSD ever had a libkthread, so this may actually be an
error in acx_pthreads.
DES
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