On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 07:27:11PM +0000, J J wrote:
> >From: "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com>
> >Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
> >list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> >To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
> >list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> >CC: bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk
> >Subject: Re: OSProcessPlugin loads incorrectly in a squeak-dev 49 image
> >Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:58:06 -0500
> >
> >If a VM for Exupery makes use of pthreads, you should probably
> >use the latest SqueakMap versions, as these make an effort to do the right
> >thing with OS signal forwarding and errno reporting in a pthreads
> >environment.
> 
> I have been meaning to ask about this for a while.  So is squeak (or can it 
> be) truley multi-threaded?  Or it is just on linux or how is that?  From 
> what I have seen on the windows platform it looks like "green threads".

Right, in Squeak a Process is like a "green thread". However, the underlying
VM may choose to use threads for its own purposes, and specific plugins may
do so also even if the VM is single threaded.

Dave