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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: David Taylor <taylor@candd.org>,
	Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>,
	gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFA/RFC] Don't use lwp_from_thread() in thread_db_wait()
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:18:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C8F9805.8090601@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020313124632.A14198@nevyn.them.org>

> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 12:37:08PM -0500, David Taylor wrote:
> 
>> > Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:23:31 -0500
>> > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
> 
>> 
> 
>> > Yes, that could probably be arranged.  Someday we should talk to a
>> > vendor of an M:N threads package and see what we have to work with.  I
>> > don't know of any offhand besides NGPT.
> 
>> 
>> If I understand you correctly, then: Solaris.
> 
> 
> Is it really?

Yep.

> To clarify, LinuxThreads has one thread per process; IBM's NGPT has
> multiple threads per process, but still multiple processes.  I was
> under the impression that Solaris LWPs would have all threads in one
> process.

That was their first attempt (if I remember right).

> (except of course the terminology gets fuzzy here.  One "process" in
> Solaris includes multiple LWPs which can be executing at the same time. 
> If my understanding above is correct it might be more appropriate to
> call Solaris one-thread-per-LWP).

enjoy,
Andrew




  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-13 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-11 15:46 Kevin Buettner
2002-03-11 18:47 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-03-11 19:16   ` Kevin Buettner
2002-03-11 19:23     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-03-11 23:52       ` Kevin Buettner
2002-03-12  8:23         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-03-13  9:37           ` David Taylor
2002-03-13  9:55             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-03-13 10:18               ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2002-03-13 10:38               ` David Taylor
2002-04-02 13:19 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-05-02 14:07   ` Michael Snyder

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