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Re: [PATCH RFA/RFC] Don't use lwp_from_thread() in thread_db_wait()
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 12:37:08PM -0500, David Taylor wrote:
>
>> > Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:23:31 -0500
>> > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
>
>>
>
>> > Yes, that could probably be arranged. Someday we should talk to a
>> > vendor of an M:N threads package and see what we have to work with. I
>> > don't know of any offhand besides NGPT.
>
>>
>> If I understand you correctly, then: Solaris.
>
>
> Is it really?
Yep.
> To clarify, LinuxThreads has one thread per process; IBM's NGPT has
> multiple threads per process, but still multiple processes. I was
> under the impression that Solaris LWPs would have all threads in one
> process.
That was their first attempt (if I remember right).
> (except of course the terminology gets fuzzy here. One "process" in
> Solaris includes multiple LWPs which can be executing at the same time.
> If my understanding above is correct it might be more appropriate to
> call Solaris one-thread-per-LWP).
enjoy,
Andrew