> On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Douglas F. Elznic wrote:
>
> :On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> :
> :> On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> :> Solaris, Digital Unix and even NT from the same source tree. This is why
> :> I get on so many Linux people's back about the state of MT under Linux.
> :Do you see any of the other x86 clones doing this well?
> :
>
> Solaris definitely has pthreads. BSDI 3.0 has pthreads although I don't
> know how debuggable they are.
>
> Why should linux follow others anyway? This is a real chance for Linux to
> take the lead in yet another field. :)
>
> --Chris
I've found Linux thread support to be mostly satsfactory.
We all need to remember the reason for threads in other OSes:
HORRIBLE CONTEXT SWITCH TIME.
As I recall, this is not so much an issue with Linux as it's normal
process context switch time is only slightly worse then the thread switch
time under solaris.