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authorJason Evans <jasone@FreeBSD.org>1999-12-24 01:12:08 +0000
committerJason Evans <jasone@FreeBSD.org>1999-12-24 01:12:08 +0000
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-Linux threads is an POSIX pthreads implementation using "kernel
-threads". In this FreeBSD port, a kernel thread is started using
-rfork (whereas in the original Linux implementation a kernel thread
-is started using the Linux clone call). This implementaion provides
-a so-called one-to-one mapping of threads to kernel schedulable
-entities. For more information see about the original linux threads
-implementation see:
+LinuxThreads is an POSIX pthreads implementation using "kernel threads". In
+this FreeBSD port, a kernel thread is started using rfork (whereas in the
+original Linux implementation a kernel thread is started using the Linux clone
+call). This implementaion provides a so-called one-to-one mapping of threads to
+kernel schedulable entities. For more information see about the original
+LinuxThreads implementation see:
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/linuxthreads/
+
+Note that LinuxThreads has been integrated with the GNU C library (glibc) since
+version 2.0, so the above URL points to dated information.