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Re: Compiling pthreads in NetBSD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Jul 28 16:48:33 1995
To: Timothy DeLamatre <td2n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: pthreads@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Jul 1995 16:09:04 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 16:18:33 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> We would like to add pthreads to our NetBSD machine but aren't sure
> which files to put where before we rebuild the kernel. Or does the
> 1_60_beta3 version of pthreads require the kernel to be re-built?
pthreads is currently a user-space threads library only (and yes, this
means there are certain performance problems which pthreads won't
solve). When pthreads does support hybrid user-space/kernel-space
threads, it will rely on kernels to support the kernel-space threads,
rather than including its own support.
In other words, no, the kernel does not need to be rebuilt.
