From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-01-17T02:03:48+09:00
Subject: Re: A question on Ruby Threads

Hi,

In message "Re: A question on Ruby Threads"
    on 02/01/17, "Tobias DiPasquale" <anany@ece.villanova.edu> writes:

|> Yes, pthreads on Unix and the WIN32 threads on Windows.
|
|PThreads are not native threads. PThreads is a package created at MIT to
|faciliate portable threading model. Tthey are user-space threads
|(switched by the process itself, susceptible to full process-block on
|single thread blocking).

I guess pthread here means POSIX thread (means API), not the MIT
pthread implementation in particular.  Some incarnation of pthreads
are user level, others are kernel level, some mixed.

							matz.