[Qt-interest] Threads

[Mandeep Sandhu]

>> Doh!  That's not quite right... but it's usually right.
>>
>> pthreads is POSIX, and somewhat implementation independent.
>>
>> The threads are supplied with your libc.  Most these days are shipping
>> NPTL.  NPTL is kernel threads.  LinuxThreads is user-space threads
>> (IIRC).  Most every distro is using NPTL these days.

IMO, NPTL != kernel threads.

In Linux each thread is directly seen by the kernel as a schedulable
entity. But threads are still run in user space unlike linux kernel
threads which run in the kernel context.

CMIIW.

Regards,
-mandeep


>>
>> Read the man page pthreads(7) for more info (man 7 pthreads)
>>
>> -gabriel
>>
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