From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-08-15T13:03:39+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: How do you use flock and clean up lock files?

Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
> Depends on the Unix. Solaris threads (not LWPs) are light as a feather.
> Linux 2.6 threads are almost as heavy as processes. Linux 2.4 threads are
> almost unusable.
Almost unusable? How are they worse than "almost as heavy as processes?"

:)