[52] in NetBSD-Development
Re: progress on AFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Provenzano)
Sun Jul 31 06:14:21 1994
To: Bill Sommerfeld <wesommer@MIT.EDU>
Cc: jtk@atria.com, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU, proven@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Jul 1994 22:56:11 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 31 Jul 1994 06:13:51 EDT
From: Christopher Provenzano <proven@MIT.EDU>
> The current AFS implementation requires non-preemptive threads.
>
> If you run it over a preemptive threads package, it will fail in
> strange and marvellous ways, because some locks you'd need in a
> preemptive environment Just Aren't There..
>
Yeah, but POSIX threads do support non-preemptive threads also.
It's an atribute you can set at create time or run time,
so this wouldn't be a problem.
> - Bill
>
>
CAP
