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Flesh out the libkse note a bit. Source material kindly provided by

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deischen, any inaccuracies are mine.

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Bruce A. Mah 2003-05-23 20:10:46 +00:00
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<para arch="i386,pc98">The <filename>libkse</filename> library,
providing POSIX threading support using KSE, is now enabled and
installed by default. It is still considered a
installed by default.
This library currently supports M:N threading. Both process and
system scope threads are supported, as well as getting/setting
the concurrency level. By default, the library sets the
concurrency level to the number of CPUs in the system. Each
concurrency level correlates to a KSE, and all process scope
threads run in these KSEs. Each system scope thread gets its
own KSE in addition to those corresponding to concurrency levels.
<filename>libkse</filename> is still considered a
work-in-progress, and is not used by default. However, it can
be used as a replacement for the <filename>libc_r</filename>
thread library.</para>
thread library, by substituting <option>-lkse</option> instead of
<option>-pthread</option> when linking programs.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98,sparc64,ia64">A 1:1 threading package (where for every pthread in an
application there is one KSE and thread) has been implemented.

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<para arch="i386,pc98">The <filename>libkse</filename> library,
providing POSIX threading support using KSE, is now enabled and
installed by default. It is still considered a
installed by default.
This library currently supports M:N threading. Both process and
system scope threads are supported, as well as getting/setting
the concurrency level. By default, the library sets the
concurrency level to the number of CPUs in the system. Each
concurrency level correlates to a KSE, and all process scope
threads run in these KSEs. Each system scope thread gets its
own KSE in addition to those corresponding to concurrency levels.
<filename>libkse</filename> is still considered a
work-in-progress, and is not used by default. However, it can
be used as a replacement for the <filename>libc_r</filename>
thread library.</para>
thread library, by substituting <option>-lkse</option> instead of
<option>-pthread</option> when linking programs.</para>
<para arch="i386,pc98,sparc64,ia64">A 1:1 threading package (where for every pthread in an
application there is one KSE and thread) has been implemented.