Re: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than on native Linux"

From: Werner Almesberger (almesber@lrc.epfl.ch)
Date: Fri Aug 25 2000 - 02:57:14 EST

Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:
> I envision something like "sys_pause()", except: (1) in a loop, and (2)
> it would take the signal and munge the things necesary to deliver it
> to a chosen process.

Where's the advantage over just making ordinary signal delivery do the
right thing ? The code's the same, and you don't give user space any
added flexibility.

- Werner 

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