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SubjectRe: Threads in linux.
Matthew Kirkwood writes:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Carlos Costa Portela wrote:
>
> > But the director says me that linux doesn't implement threads, is this
> > true?. He said that threads in linux are implemented by a library, not
> > at kernel-level.
>
> Nonsense. It may have been true three years ago (my memory isn't
> too great at these things) but it certainly wasn't true two years
> ago.

IIRC, 1.3.38 was one of the first reasonably stable Linux SMP
releases. It was released on 6-NOV-1995. The next month I had a dual
PPro to play with...

Regards,

Richard....
Old: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca

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