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- From: mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann)
- Subject: Re: Failing system calls and threads
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.224120.25254@src.dec.com>
- Sender: news@src.dec.com (News)
- Organization: DEC Systems Research Center
- References: <1992Nov20.120734.23671@rdg.dec.com> <1992Nov23.181035.17514@src.dec.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 22:41:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.181035.17514@src.dec.com> Eric Muller <muller@src.dec.com> writes:
- >
- >The thread machinery takes care of
- >saving/restoring errno when a thread switch occurs. It's that simple.
- >
-
- This trick won't work on a multiprocessor. Also, you're unlikely to
- be able to implement it in a runtime that uses kernel-provided threads
- instead of having its own scheduler.
-
- --Tim
-