uemura@isvax.isl.melco.co.jp (Joe Uemura) (12/14/89)
I've been experimenting with Mach threads (not Cthreads) on our Encore running Mach 0.5. After poking around several include files, I was able to get a thread created and got it running by following the hints presented in the "Mach Kernel Interface Manu- al". Since most of what I did was guess work, I am looking for a more detailed explanation of how Mach threads syscalls actually work, specially how much of the thread state I should provide through the set state syscall. I'm interested in both the syntax as well as the semantics of the threads syscalls. I would appre- ciate any pointers to documents, tech reports, actual code exam- ples, anything. I believe I have read most of the CMU Mach papers but since threads calls are machine dependent, I haven't been able to find much specific (Encore/NS32K) information concerning the calls. Please email responses to me.