On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 11:01:21PM -0700, Per Bjornsson wrote: > interfaces can be a real boost for threaded applications, and i386 lacks > some features (available in i486 and later) that are essentially needed > for NPTL. Thus this has only now become an important issue. (And it's Correct - its things like xadd that the 386 lacks, and these are almost impossible to emulate in user space (and non trivial in kernel space) because they are locking operations
