Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 17 Dec 1999 21:38:00 -0500 | From | Joel Becker <> | Subject | Re: RasterMan on linux and threads |
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On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 04:15:37PM -0800, Brian Pomerantz wrote: > Solaris and True64 (AIX as well?) have both user-space thread control > as well as kernel threading which is taken care of by the kernel. > With these you can switch between being user-space and kernel threads, > though I don't see the wisdom in this. The philosophy of these other > platforms are much different than the Linux way of handling threads.
AIX has only one level of threads. However, there are two ways of acessing them. Via AIX's native kernel_thread calls (pre-POSIX), or via pthreads (which just wrappers the native calls). The end result in the kernel is the same. It is quite similar to the difference on linux of using pthreads or calling clone() yourself.
Joel
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