Re: Linus on Linux, Apache and Threads

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 10:13:19 +0200 (CEST)


On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Tony Gale wrote:

> Can I just get some clarification here. pthread_cond_signal is
> defined as waking *one* thread, thus:

> Are you saying that the kernel will in fact wake up *all* the threads
> (either just internally, or in actuality)?

i think in glibc 2.1 it uses RT queued signals, thus it's a true 1:1
wakeup. Not sure though.

-- mingo

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