libkse -> libpthread

Terry Lambert tlambert2 at mindspring.com
Mon Apr 21 11:29:44 PDT 2003


Jeff Roberson wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > Since libkse seems to be generally useful, anyone mind if I
> > go back to installing it as libpthread?
> 
> There is some question over whether kse or thr will be the default
> threading implementation for 5.1.  I think this should be discussed before
> we decide on what lib uses libpthread.

Isn't libthr really just libkse with N = M?

These should behave exactly the same, right?  It should even be
possible to drop the UTS out of the picture for everything but
signal handling, I think (i.e. it would never get upcalled) in
the 1:1 case, if this were done?

-- Terry


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