libkse -> libpthread

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Mon Apr 21 14:28:39 PDT 2003



On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:

> 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?

yes and no..
it could have been but for practical reasons was implemented separatly.

> 
> 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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