Re: kernel thread support - LWP's

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Thu, 15 Jul 1999 15:31:56 -0400


On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 11:46:26AM -0600, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> : With the LWP model, you can fork() a process, and the new process can
> : contain duplicates of all the parent's threads. That would seem to be a
> : challenge with the clone model.
>
> Err, umm, I guess I'd want to see a real world example of somebody wanting
> to do this to really understand the need. Until then, this sounds sort of
> like a made up example to win an argument.

Which is precisely what I said in the one sentence you seem to have
snipped from my message. Of course, when I wrote it I didn't realize you
were just looking for someone to argue with.

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