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From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:23:19 -0500
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| Are threads in libthread just a
| convenient representation of a particular type of process or they
| different beings altogether?

It provides uniform notation for dealing with lightweight processes
(kernel level entities) and coroutines (language-runtime entities).