In article <d228f536-768f-47af-a3b1-f7216833c8b5@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com>,
<ttsiodras@gmail.com> wrote:
>Thanks for clearing it up, Marc.
>
>As a side note, however, allow me to point that this sounds like a
>severe
>limitation for an OS - we are living in the multicore era. Both Linux
>and Windows
>are able to allocate threads to different cores automatically, where
>as apparently
>OpenBSD can only do things in parallel if you "fork". A lot of
>packages are
>using threads...

Threaded programming is difficult, and very hard to get right, and fraught
with security issues...

That said, kernel-mode threads are on the todo-list of some people.
They're not ready yet.