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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!taco.cc.ncsu.edu!crazytrain.eos.ncsu.edu!not-for-mail From: kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu (Kevin P. Neal) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: POSIX threads Date: 25 Nov 1995 20:41:22 GMT Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 23 Message-ID: <497v1i$1fi@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> References: <DIEoA9.D2J@tigger.jvnc.net> <MICHAELV.95Nov21233558@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: crazytrain.eos.ncsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com) wrote: : In article <DIEoA9.D2J@tigger.jvnc.net> jlucas@uvi.edu (John Lucas) writes: : : Can anyone tell me if NetBSD supports POSIX threads? If so does this support : extend into the kernal? : : The reason I ask is that I would like to try running Dartmouth's "BlitzMail" : with *BSD, but it requires either NextStep's "cthreads" or POSIX "pthreads" in : order to operate. Has anyone done this already? : : I have heard, in the past, that pthreads ran just dandy on NetBSD. : Have never tried it myself, however. : I think libpthreads on NetBSD only runs on the PC port, there is some assembly and stuff to interface with the system calls that hasn't been rewritten for the m68k or whatever. -- XCOMM -------------------------------------------------------- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Sophomore CSC/CPE kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu XCOMM North Carolina State University kevinneal@bix.com XCOMM --------------------------------------------------------