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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc 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!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!fox.almaden.ibm.com!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!sef From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: Symmetric Multi-Processing Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Message-ID: <DqMvsF.LIx@kithrup.com> References: <3180D16D.41C6@wcom.com> <31827FD0.FF6D5DF@FreeBSD.org> <31829E21.46253B04@lambert.org> <4m01n3$t88@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 17:12:14 GMT Lines: 11 In article <4m01n3$t88@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, Michael C. Cambria <cambria> wrote: >From a user point of view, how does FreeBSD provide SMP from _an_ application >(or does it)? I'm interested in pthreads. I'll settle for Draft 4, but >obvioulsy like the actual standard interface. I believe that -current has pthreads support; 2.1R may have had it as well (I'm a bit spotty about library details). However, it cannot take advantage of any MP support, because of the way pthreads works.