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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.eecs.umich.edu!panix!rek.tjls.com!rek.tjls.com!not-for-mail From: tls@rek.tjls.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy Subject: Re: Win32 CreateThread() vs Unix fork() Date: 14 Dec 1995 12:36:32 -0500 Organization: Never! Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4apnb0$8e7@fearsome.tjls.com> References: <4ab85f$idq@news.voicenet.com> <4aig98$mca@madeline.ins.cwru.edu> <4akev2$e07@rznews.rrze.uni-erlangen.de> <4aoc2d$sqv@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: fearsome.tjls.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10856 comp.unix.advocacy:12406 In article <4aoc2d$sqv@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >msmeissn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Marcus Meissner) wrote: >[ ... SMP scalability ... ] > >] 100% scaleable? Wasn't that mentioned under 'impossible' in >] the OS concepts lectures I've heard? > >I heard you could get it using immutexes (a type of >asynchronization primitive). No, no, no, you've got it all wrong, that's what the "immutable" bit in the filesystem is for. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com Where is the day that melted into one rich noise? --Thomas Wolfe