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From: tls@rek.tjls.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy
Subject: Re: Win32 CreateThread() vs Unix fork()
Date: 14 Dec 1995 12:36:32 -0500
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In article <4aoc2d$sqv@park.uvsc.edu>,
Terry Lambert  <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>msmeissn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Marcus Meissner) wrote:
>[ ... SMP scalability ... ]
>
>] 100% scaleable? Wasn't that mentioned under 'impossible' in
>] the OS concepts lectures I've heard?
>
>I heard you could get it using immutexes (a type of
>asynchronization primitive).

No, no, no, you've got it all wrong, that's what the "immutable" bit in the
filesystem is for.  
-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon                                             tls@rek.tjls.com

   Where is the day that melted into one rich noise?          --Thomas Wolfe