[vdr] Re: Threading issues on RH9

[s.huelswitt@gmx.de (Stefan Huelswitt)]

On 31 May 2003 Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de> wrote:

> Stefan Huelswitt wrote:
>> Yes, there is only ONE process and the thread schedule is done
>> internaly in some way.
> 
> Hmm, then where exactly is the advantage of all this?
> I feel like this would deprive me of some control over the
> threads that I currently have. Am I missing something?

I don't know, but I guess:
-less overhead.
-each program can have his own scheduling algo.

I think, that most other unix system have thread implementation
which doesn't map a thread to a process.

-- 
Stefan Huelswitt
huels@iname.com  | http://home.pages.de/~nathan


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