sched_4BSD

[laffer1]

This looks like a linux thing to me...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPTL

If its a spec, i'd like to know how.

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Julian Elischer wrote:

>
>
> Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
>
>> --- Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> --- Lucas Holt <luke at foolishgames.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Wouldn't a multi threaded program potentially need
>>>>> more cpu time than vi? 
>>>>> 
>>>> No. That is not a given.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Multithreaded apps are created to do a lot of
>>>>> computation or because they have a lot of concurrent activity
>>>>> 
>>> that
>>> 
>>>>> might block right?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> Threads are meant to take advantage of concurrency.
>>>> 
>>>> Maybe the freebsd implementation should implement
>>>> 
>>> NPTL
>>> 
>>>> in entirety.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> NPTL?
>>> New Pthreads Library from Library?
>>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>>> isn't that GPL'd?
>>> 
>>> 
>> No -it is a standard. The linux implementation of nptl
>> is gpl'ed.
>> regards
>> -kamal
>> 
>
> so how does that differ from what we have ... a native pthreads library?
>
>> 
>> 
>> =====
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> Kamal R. Prasad
>> UNIX systems consultant kamalp at acm.org
>> 
>> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, 
>> there is:-).
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
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