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Re: LinuxThreads (0.8) are non-preemptive ?

To: Albert Siersema <albert@friendly.net>
Subject: Re: LinuxThreads (0.8) are non-preemptive ?
From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 08:05:57 -0800
Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
In-reply-to: <4.3.0.20000302142453.00ac13c0@mx.friendly.net>

At 02:28 PM 3/2/00 +0100, Albert Siersema wrote:
>AFAIK (and the designer/programmer/writer of the FAQ)
>LinuxThreads use the Linux specific clone(2) system call
>which causes threads being scheduled by the kernel as
>if it where seperate processes thus making it IMHO
>non-preemptive and safe to use.

The fact that threads are in separate processes and the
kernel provides preemptive process scheduling, means that
LinuxThreads are preemptive.

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