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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Q: Thread package for Freebsd?
Date: 5 Jul 1997 11:33:10 GMT
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Steve Chan <stevec@starnetc.com> wrote:

> Are there thread packages for FreeBSD? Pthread?

pthreads is IMHO available, as well as a thread-safe C library.  The
latter is still under development, so you might want to try the most
recent version.

Kernel threads are rumoured to be under development.
-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j