Threads (Was Re: Multiprocessor support)

[jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl]

On Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 02:38:55PM -0700, Steve Mayer wrote:
>   Debian as a distribution has nothing to do with multiprocessor
> support.

I'm not so sure about this. I'm not really familiar with threads (any
pointers to basic documentation/articles?), but I recall that it is possible
to distribute threads belonging to one process amoung the CPUs in an SMP
system. The distribution can make it easier to take advantage of this by
having its libraries thread-safe; the basics for this are already part of
Debian policy: "You have to specify the gcc option `-D_REENTRANT' when
building a library (either static or shared) to make the library compatible
with LinuxThreads."

Ray
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