[comp.os.mach] Who uses threads?

skea@vast.eecs.unsw.oz.au (Alan Skea) (10/05/89)

Who uses threads?  If you are using the threads mechanism can you please
let me know and give me some idea of what your application is and why
threads are the mechanism of choice for your application (i.e. why coudn't
your aplication use message passing as the communication/synchronisaton
mechanism?)

I am trying to evaluate exactly what the benefits of threads are in a
distributed operating system and finding out about applications of threads
and the reasons that people have chosen threads over any other mechanism
seems like a good approach (in addition to the various papers that I
have read).

Please MAIL replies, I will summarise to the net in a couple of weeks.

Thanks in advance.
Alan Skea.			skea@vast.eecs.unsw.oz.au