the term “kernel thread” customarily refers specifically to privileged threads which are “part of the kernel itself.”

Bullshit! As normal. Why do you bother?

Update: "Processes, kernel threads, user threads, and fibers: Scheduling can be done at the kernel level or user level, and multitasking can be done preemptively or cooperatively. This yields a variety of related concepts. At the kernel level, a process contains one or more kernel threads, which share the process's resources, such as memory and file handles – a process is a unit of resources, while a thread is a unit of scheduling and execution"

In reply to Re^5: Disadvantage of not supporting pthreads in perl and how perl overcomes? (cores) by BrowserUk
in thread Disadvantage of not supporting pthreads in perl and how perl overcomes? by Anonymous Monk

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