Re: Torvalds on POSIX threads

According to Joshua Pritikin:
>   o the POSIX standard is technically stupid. It's much better to use a
>     cleaner fundamental threading model and build on top of that. 
>   o things like the above are just so much better and more easily done in
>     user space anyway.

I agree.  POSIX threads' signal-handling model is really awkward, if I
understand it correctly.  I've never spent a lot of time on it, but
wearing my implementor hat, just the very idea of having a separate
signal mask for each thread gives me the screaming heebie jeebies.

I suspect that Topaz's threading will be built on our own
abstractions, possibly borrowed from the Mozilla code (as Linus
himself suggested).  But that's a ways down the pike.
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