From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4033E8DE.1020501@unm.edu> From: James Horey User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] parallel programming in Plan 9 References: <4033D2CF.3030208@unm.edu> <20040218211742.26333.qmail@g.galapagos.bx.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040218211742.26333.qmail@g.galapagos.bx.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:36:14 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: eb93f66e-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Scott Schwartz wrote: >Russ wrote a nice little essay that addresses some of the language >level ideas. Maybe the 9grid folks will write a similar essay >(if the inferno guys haven't already.) > >http://plan9.bell-labs.com/who/rsc/thread/index.html > > > I am a bit confused about libthread in Plan9; I recall reading that Plan 9 supports creating processes that share the same address space as the parent process using rfork, but that Plan 9 doesn't really differentiate between a thread and a process per se. Are threads in libthread just a convenient representation of a particular type of process or they different beings altogether? -James Horey