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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] vfork and paging
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Date: Wed,  3 Oct 2001 09:38:08 +0200
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> if i ever have to do multi-threaded code in C on another platform
> again i shall port and use the plan 9 thread library - it's by far the
> most reasonable i've seen.

there's a thread lib for plan 9?

i believe that threads were outlawed, because thread programming was
considered to be too hard.  which isn't a bad thing 'cos writing
correct programs is hard enough and the closest you used to get to
threads was kernel hacking and that code/compile/run cycle is damn
painful.

at least threads are in user mode so your m/c doesn't crash and
your f/s doesn't get trashed.