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From: Stefan Skoglund <stetson@ebox.tninet.se>
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Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD a better choice for threads/tasking?
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:35:53 +0200
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Mike Silva wrote:
> and performance of their threading implementations?  I'm looking to improve
> my skills at both raw POSIX threads programming and Ada task programming
> (GNAT) and want to make the right OS choice, if there is one.  Thanks for

Personally i think that the thread model in Linux sucks.


The one in Solaris is much better.
Solaris has OS supported sync of threads in the same task.
You can create a mutex which works correctly between threads in the
same task. Linux DOESN't support that.