[jcifs] threading

[Michael B. Allen]

On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 23:21:22 -0600
"Christopher R. Hertel" <crh at ubiqx.mn.org> wrote:

> So the thread is calling a blocking syscall, and thus blocking all other 
> threads as well...  Is that correct?

No. That should not happen with native threads. If threads are
handled entirely in userspace it will but not with native kernelspace
threads. Actually there are different thread models that might utilize
a mixture of userspace and kernelspace threads so in theory a blocking
syscall like a read could block other threads but I've never actually
seen this happen.

Mike

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