Greg Lewis wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:24:14PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: >> Greg Lewis wrote: >> >>> If you really want to know, just send the running process a SIGQUIT and >>> it will dump the currently running threads to stdout. But yes, 1.4 and 1.5 >>> both use "native" threads which correspond 1:1 with OS threads (plus >>> there are threads the JVM creates itself, as you note). The JVM threads >>> include garbage collection and AWT event handlers at least. >>> >> I gather it doesn't use libpthread, but rather just the syscalls? > > No, it does use libpthread (or libthr, or libc_r if you so choose). What > I'm saying is that the JVM maps a single Java thread to a single <pthread > library of your choice> thread. How that maps to a kernel thread is > then defined by the threading library. > > The point is that the JVM doesn't do any internal M:N business itself, > which was the original point under discussion IIRC. > gotchaReceived on Mon Oct 30 2006 - 18:26:46 UTC
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