Re: [boost] Kernel-level threads

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Tibor Szaboky <tibors@gmail.com> wrote:

Does Boost support Kernel-level threads?

It depends on what platform you're on. In Linux 2.6.x user threads are mapped to kernel threads 1:1. On some platforms (Solaris, other UNIXes) there's an M:N mapping of user to kernel threads. I'm not familiar with how things are done on Windows so I can't really tell. If what you're asking is if Boost.Thread uses 'clone()' directly on Linux then the answer would be no as it goes through pthreads to do the threading. On other platforms I'd say the answer would be no as well. HTH -- Dean Michael Berris about.me/deanberris