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From: kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu (Kevin P. Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: POSIX threads
Date: 25 Nov 1995 20:41:22 GMT
Organization: North Carolina State University
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Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com) wrote:
: In article <DIEoA9.D2J@tigger.jvnc.net> jlucas@uvi.edu (John Lucas) writes:
: 
:    Can anyone tell me if NetBSD supports POSIX threads? If so does this support 
:    extend into the kernal?
: 
:    The reason I ask is that I would like to try running Dartmouth's "BlitzMail" 
:    with *BSD, but it requires either NextStep's "cthreads" or POSIX "pthreads" in 
:    order to operate. Has anyone done this already?
: 
: I have heard, in the past, that pthreads ran just dandy on NetBSD.
: Have never tried it myself, however.
: 

I think libpthreads on NetBSD only runs on the PC port, there is some
assembly and stuff to interface with the system calls that hasn't
been rewritten for the m68k or whatever.

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