Re: [RFC] Enable thread termination

[Samuel Thibault]

Neal H. Walfield, le Mon 18 Nov 2013 13:41:46 +0100, a écrit :
> At Mon, 18 Nov 2013 12:31:42 +0100,
> Richard Braun wrote:
> > The threading library is a
> > low level component and should act as closely as its users expect it to.
> 
> I don't agree.  On Linux, creating a thread is a pretty much a single
> system call.

Err, not really. There are a *lot* of things that libpthread fixes up,
be it TLS, robust mutex lists, reseting cancellability state, tracing,
etc.

> On a micro-kernel based system, there is a lot more work to do.

I don't see much more there. The reply port, the self thread port, what
else?

Samuel