At Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:14:57 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > 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.
Ok, fair enough. My assumptions/recollections about how NPTL work are probably incorrect. I haven't looked at that code in a long time. Neal
