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Linux kernel-level threading
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil Bartlett)
Wed Aug 7 07:46:33 1996
From: Neil Bartlett <neil@hardy.imperial.co.uk>
To: pthreads@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 12:24:54 +0100
Hello,
I recently discovered the "clone" system call in the newer Linux kernels,
and on reading about it I realised that it could be used to perform
kernel-level threading.
I haven't looked into this in great detail, but it would seem to make
user-level threading libraries like pthreads redundant under Linux.
My question is, does pthreads still have a place, and are there any
circumstances under which it would be preferable to use pthreads instead
of clone (or vice versa)?
Regards, Neil.
--
Neil Bartlett, Imperial Business Systems, Bristol.
"Nay I wol drynke licour of the vyne,
And have a joly wenche in every toun" - Chaucer
