From: Rob McCool 
Newsgroups: netscape.devs-nsapi
Subject: Re: Threads on HPUX
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 12:46:10 -0800

> My understanding of server threading is that the server performs its
> Init calls, then spawns multiple processes which in turn then spawn
> multiple threads.  Is this true on all platforms?
> 
> I beleive that HPUX versions 9.x, 10.01, and 10.10, 10.20 progress
> from no thread support to users threads only, ending with full kernel
> thread support.  Do Netscape servers make use of threads on HPUX?  Is
> this consistent for all available servers?

We currently use our own user-level thread package (not the one HP
provides). When 10.20 and kernel threads arrive, we expect to take
advantage of them.
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Rob McCool, robm@netscape.com http://home.netscape.com/people/robm/
Stunt Programmer, Netscape Communications Corporation
It was working ten minutes ago, I swear...

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