Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than on native Linux" | Date | Thu, 24 Aug 2000 16:52:04 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I'd much rather see us do the sensible credential stuff in the > kernel, and the really, really broken bits of the API like shared > setuid in user space.
Definitely. The shared uid crap is entirely forced on posix pthreads design because they had an infeasible requirement that it could be implemented sanely entirely in userspace. Its a price of many to one thread models.
For most real world applications its a performance hit and a hinderance.
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