Re: Did I hear you folks might be interested in POSIX threads?
> > > > I'm not sure how portable NGPT is. Also, we already have a partial
> >=20
> > Actually, being based originally on GNU Pth, it's pretty portable. There=
> are=20
> > very few dependencies on Linux except for one module.
>
> That's nice.
But not so nice for L4 :-(
> I'm not sure at which threating interface you are looking. Remind that
> hurd isn't a traditional unix-kernel, but a colleciton of servers
> running on a microkernel (mach for now). Mach doesn't have support for
> signals, so that's done in glibc using a special signal thread.
Right! This is exactly the same situation here on L4.
-Farid.
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