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From: palazzol@comcast.net
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>, 9fans@9fans.net
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 21:21:55 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Threading Model Questions
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Woops, sorry - I actually meant the stuff referenced in the lock(2) man page, which looks like it's not part of libthread.

-Frank

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
> > 4) Finally, it looks like libthread has support for a lot of non-CSP stuff.
> Is this part used much?  Or is it just there for historical and/or completeness
> reasons.
>
> my simple search through thread.h yielded only these functions that i wouldn't
> consider either part of thread/proc management, particular csp applications
> (e.g. io* functions) or genuine csp:
>
> 	long	decref(Ref *r);			/* returns 0 iff value is now
> zero */
> 	void	incref(Ref *r);
> 	void	threadnonotes(void);
> 	int	threadnotify(int (*f)(void*, char*), int in);
> 	void	yield(void);
>
> was there something else you had in mind?
>
> - erik
>
>