Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Aug 1999 10:22:58 -0400 | From | Dave DeMaagd <> | Subject | Re: Threads in linux. |
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Carlos Costa Portela <ccosta@servidores.net> wrote: > But the director says me that linux doesn't implement threads, is this > true?. > If it is, then I guess all of the libpthread stuff on most of my macghines is just wasting space... Better just delete them with 50M of /var/log since linux doesn't have system logging either (something I heard a while back).
> He said that threads in linux are implemented by a library, not at > kernel-level. > And this is bad how?
Not everything needs to be done at the kernel level - in fact, there are a great many things that should definately /not/ be done there. This, IMHO, is one of the places where NT really gets it wrong - they want /everything/ (OK, I'm probably blowing it out of proportion a bit) in the kernel, or at least part of the OS (yes, the browser is an integral part of the 'windows experience', gee, what did we do until the browser came along).
This is adding unnecessary complexity, and the more complex something is, the more things that can potentially go wrong, and this leads to instability.
/me hugs his Linux kernel, and steps off his soap-box
-- Dave DeMaagd - demaagd@slashdot.org - SysAdmin/Programmer - TheImageGroup Objective C is the absurd love child of C and Smalltalk
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