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From: dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Solaris thread scheaduling
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 16:53:56 -0400
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> Cooperative threads are just coroutines.  They're `cooperative'
> because if the thread doesn't cooperate by calling the scheduler,
> no other thread ever get scheduled.

It's a bit like, "cooperate -- or else!".