Re: KSE, libpthread & libthr: almost newbie question

On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 02:43:21PM +0100, Nuno Antunes wrote:
On 10/27/06, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
KSE == N:M threading

A 1:1 threading (libthr) is much simpler than N:M threading (libpthread),
and thus doesn't require KSE support in the kernel; see kse(2) manpage
for details. Without the KSE option in the kernel, all kse(2) syscalls
will return EOPNOTSUPP, and a lot of code becomes redundant.


IIRC, I can even remember libpthread being originaly named libkse.

It's still named libkse on sparc64 and sun4v.


Cheers,
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Ruslan Ermilov
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