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From: James Mansion <james@wgold.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: POSIX threads for FreeBSD?
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 19:30:51 +0000
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Rao VA wrote:

> ( (At least as well as Linux)  & (kernel mode POSIX threads) )
> 
> Does this imply that Linux supports kernel threading ? If so, which
> kernel (and libraries) are we talking about?

Yes.

A 2.x (or late model 1.x.y, I don't know ...)

LinuxThreads.